CIL's coal output in double digits for four consecutive months in July

State-owned CIL on Monday said that it produced 47.3 million tonnes (MT) of coal last month, registering a growth of 11 per cent from the year-ago period.

The production of domestic coal usually dips during monsoon every year due to disruptions in mining activity.

The company's output in the corresponding month of previous fiscal was 42.6 million tonnes (MT), the coal behemoth said in a BSE filing.

Coal India Ltd (CIL) said it maintained the double-digit rising streak for four consecutive months of the current financial year.

Coal India accounts for over 80 per cent of domestic coal production.

The public sector enterprise produced 207.1 MT of coal in the first four months of the ongoing fiscal, registering a growth of 24.3 per cent over 166.6 MT in the year-ago period.

In the wake of a surge in demand from the power sector, CIL supplied 199.4 MT of coal to this sector in the April-July period of the current fiscal, 19.2 per cent more than 167.3 MT supplied in the year-ago ...