State-owned Coal India Ltd (CIL) on Friday announced that it has recorded coal production of 46.4 million tonnes (MTs) in the month of July, posting a decline of 15.6 per cent in comparison to 55.0 million tonnes during the same period last year. This is despite government targeting to increase the output to reduce the dependency on imports.
Decline in output across subsidiaries
During the period under review, similar to the previous month, all of the eight subsidiaries of Coal India reported a decline in production in the range of 4.4 per cent to 38.2 per cent on YoY basis to as much as 100 per cent.
For the April-July 2025 period, the cumulative production was 229.8 MT, down 6.0 per cent as compared to 244.3 MT during the year ago period. The data released by Coal India in a regulatory filing indicated a mixed performance across its various mining operations.
The state-owned company, however, did not give a reason for the decline in coal production.
Update on July coal offtake
Meanwhile, coal offtake, which refers to the volume of dry-fuel supplied from a coal pithead, dropped by 11.3 per cent to 53.7 MT in July in comparison to 60.5 in the same month of previous financial year.
For the April-July period, offtake declined by 5.7 per cent to 244.5 MT from 259.4 MT in the same period of previous fiscal.
CIL contributes more than 80 per cent of the country’s coal production. In FY25, the company produced 781.1 million tonnes (MT) of coal, falling short of its annual target of 838 MT by about 7 per cent. For FY26, CIL aims to produce 875 MT of coal and achieve an offtake of 900 MT.
Coal India Q1 performance
On July 31, Coal India had released its fiscal first quarter earnings report with wherein it had posted a profit decline of 20 per cent to Rs 8,734 crore as compared to Rs 10,943 crore in the same period a year ago. It had posted revenue from operations at Rs 35,842 crore in the June quarter of FY26, down 4.4 per cent as against Rs 37,504 crore in the same period of FY25.
Coal India’s dividend announcement
Coal India’s board of directors, in a separate filing on the exchanges, declared the payment of its first interim dividend at Rs 5.50 per equity share having face value of Rs 10 each for the FY 2025-26.
“The dividend will be paid to shareholders holding equity shares of the Company, either in electronic or in physical form as on Wednesday, 6th August’2025, i.e, Record Date,” it said.