Coal India targets 4-5% production growth in FY25

Kolkata: Coal India Ltd (CIL) has acknowledged that the realistic production target for the current fiscal will be 806-810 million tonnes (MT), down from 838 million tonnes, company Chairman PM Prasad said on Friday.

CIL production grew 2.2% to 543 million tonnes till December in the current fiscal. But aiming to ramp up production in the remaining days of the fiscal, efforts are on to achieve a growth of around 4-5%, he said. "We are targeting a production of 806-810 million tonnes in the current fiscal," Prasad said. "In the full year, we are targeting to achieve a realistic target of about 4-5 per cent growth," he added. In FY24, CIL produced 773.65 million tonnes, marking an 11% growth over FY23.