The total domestic coal production in 2022-23, as on 31 May is 137.85 MT, which is 28.6 per cent more as compared to the production of 104.83 MT in the same period of last year. This trend is being maintained in June also.
June 19, 2022Coal imports grew at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 22.86% during the period 2009-10 to 2013-14. At this CAGR, coal imports would have reached 705 MT in 2020-21 and further to 866 MT in 2021-22. The import of coal could be checked only by sustaining increased domestic supply over the years.
June 2, 2022This determination of coal consumption during the said period will give a window of about three weeks for these plants to procure imported coal.
May 29, 2022In April 2022, the Coal India Ltd. (CIL), Singareni Collieries Company Ltd. (SCCL) and Captive mines/Others registered a growth of 27.64 per cent, 9.59 per cent and 59.98 per cent by producing 53.47 MT, 5.32 MT and 7.79 MT of coal respectively.
May 10, 2022The minister gave the advice during a meeting to review the status of import of coal for blending in the thermal power plants with the states.
May 6, 2022While Coal India Ltd (CIL) and its subsidiaries produced 534.7 lakh tonnes of coal, production by Singareni Colleries Company Ltd (SCCL) stood at 53.23 lakh tonnes and production from captive mines touched 73.61 lakh tonnes during April.
May 3, 2022Indian Railways is grappling with the problem of damaged wagons that is not only affecting its normal operations but also leading to delay in coal supplies. To manage the crisis the Railways has spent more than Rs 150 crore in repairing around 2000 damaged and dilapidated wagons over the last four months to augment coal movement to power plants, official data has revealed.
May 2, 2022To ensure a swift supply of coal across power plants, additional trains and rakes by Indian Railways have been initiated to augment the transportation of coal through its network, the Ministry of Railways said in a statement.
April 25, 2022The Indian Bureau of Mines has released provisional day which says that the cumulative growth for the period April to February 2021-22 over the corresponding period of the previous year has increased by 13.2 per cent.
April 14, 2022The policy provides for the utilisation of such land for the purpose of development and setting up infrastructure relating to coal and energy.
April 13, 2022Global thermal coal prices have remained elevated as a fallout of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, which disrupted trade flows and crippled supply amid additional demand from Europe, which has now sanctioned Russian coal.
April 13, 2022The data released by the Coal Ministry here on Tuesday revealed that import of all grades of non coking coals has come down from 147 Million Metric Tons (MT) in April-December 2020 to mere 117 MT in April-December 202.
March 8, 2022Coal is playing a pivotal role to meet the energy requirements and its role has become more important due to the new international developments, steep increase in fuel prices including that of coal, said Union Coal Secretary Anil Kumar.
March 7, 2022The Union Coal Ministry had a consultation with all the stakeholders, mainly private players, to start these discontinued 100 coal mines on revenue sharing basis, said a senior officer of the Union Coal Ministry here on Friday
February 25, 2022The ERP is a great tool of IT (Information Technology) intervention that would help CIL to improve its business performance and growth with enhanced data integrity and cost effectiveness, the Minister said while inaugurating the ERP system for Coal India Ltd.
February 24, 2022In its representation to the Ministry, the AAI has lauded the combined efforts by the Ministry of Coal and Coal India Limited in reviving domestic coal production, which has helped ease the coal supply crisis for the Power Sector.
February 1, 2022The 0.25 TPD (Tons per Day) capacity CTM pilot plant was designed, developed and installed by the BHEL, and has been producing methanol with 99 % accuracy, said CMD Shinghal Nalin Shinghal.
January 16, 2022