State-owned Coal India Ltd (CIL) on Tuesday announced that it has recorded coal production of 57.8 million tonnes (MTs) in the month of June, posting a decline of 8.5 per cent in comparison to 63.1 million tonnes during the same period last year. This is even as the government aims to increase the output to reduce the dependency on imports.
During the month, Coal India’s all of the eight subsidiaries reported a decline in production in the range of 0.8 per cent to 29.8 per cent on YoY basis to as much as 100 per cent. This contributed to the slight overall drop.
For the April-June 2025 period, the cumulative production was 183.3 MT, down 3.2 per cent as compared to 189.3 MT during the year ago period, indicating a mixed start to the fiscal year for its various mining operations, Coal India said in a regulatory filing.
The company, however, did not give a reason for the decline in coal production.
Meanwhile, coal offtake, which refers to the volume of dry-fuel supplied from a coal pithead, too dropped by 7.4 per cent to 60.4 MT in June in comparison to 65.2 MT in the same month of previous financial year.
For the April-June period, offtake declined by 4.5 per cent to 190.1 MT from 198.9 MT in the same period of previous fiscal.
Coal production, experts said, usually faces hindrances during the monsoon season. This leads to drop in output from mines, which consequently affects the dispatch to power plants.
CIL accounts for over 80 per cent of domestic coal output. In the financial year 2024-25, CIL produced 781.1 MT of coal, nearly 7 per cent less than the company’s annual target of 838 MT. For FY26, Coal India is targeting a production of 875 MT and offtake of 900 MT.
Earlier in May, Coal India had released its fiscal fourth quarter earnings report with profit at Rs 9,604.02 crore, up 12.04 per cent on-year. The company’s revenue from operations for the quarter under review dropped by 1 per cent YoY to Rs 37,824.54 crore.