State-owned Coal India Ltd will produce at least 50 million tonnes more coal in the current

fiscal than the last financial year, Coal and Power Minister Piyush Goyal has said.

State-owned Coal India Ltd  will produce at least 50 million tonnes more coal in the current 

fiscal than the last financial year, Coal and Power Minister Piyush Goyal has said. 

The government has set an ambitious one billion tonne of production target for Coal India 

(CIL) by 2020.

“This year, Coal India will produce at least 50 million tonnes more than it did last year,” 

Goyal said here.

He further said that in the last fiscal, CIL added 32 million tonnes which is more than the 

cumulative growth of four years. “…the same set of people in Coal India who could not have 

growth of more than 1, 2, 4 percent for decades… have produced a growth of 7 percent last 

year. Today, as we speak they are at a growth of 9 percent in the current year and we will 

end this year with a growth of 11 percent plus,” he said. 

CIL recorded an output of 37.17 million tonnes in September, missing the target by 4.1 

percent. The company’s production target for September was 38.77 million tonnes (MT).

CIL achieved an output of 229.54 MT in the first six months of the current fiscal, missing its 

target of 235.49 MT. 

Coal India’s output target for the current fiscal is 550 million tonnes. The company recorded 

an output of 494.23 million tonnes in the last fiscal.

The government had earlier said that it is hopeful that Coal India will surpass its one billion 

tonne excavation target by 2020. The company accounts for over 80 percent of the 

domestic coal production.