As per International Energy Agency (IEA), India was the third largest coal producer in the world during 2016-17.         

            There is no shortage of coal in the Country. As on 1.04.2018 the vendible stock of coal was 55.6 MT and as on 15.12.2018 coal stock was 22.93 MT with CIL.  All India raw coal production has increased from 565.77 MT in 2013-14 to 676.48 MT in 2017-18. The all India coal production during April-Nov. 2018 was 433.90 MT with a growth of 9.8% over the corresponding period of the previous year 2017-18.

 

The all India demand of coal,  production,  supply and import of coal by Coal India Limited (CIL) and its subsidiaries during last three years and current year i.e. 2018 upto November, 2018 is given below:-

 

Year	2015-16	2016-17	2017-18	2018-19
Total demand (Mte)$	822.36	884.87	908.40	991.35
Total domestic Production (Mte)	639.23	657.87	676.48	433.90@
Total domestic Supply (Mte)	632.44	644.56	691.42	471.70@
Total Import (Mte)	203.95	190.95	208.27	111.60#
Import by CIL (Mte)	0.36	0.00	0.00	0.00
$ All India Estimated by NitiAayog   @ Upto November, 2018    # upto September, 2018

 

 

Subsidiary-wise and State-wise raw coal production of Coal India Limited during each of the last three years and current year is given below:

 (in Million Tonnes)

Sub.Co.	STATE	2015-16	2016-17	2017-18	2018-19 (April-Nov.) Prov.
ECL	West Bengal	21.161	23.583	25.605	16.927
	Jharkhand	19.047	16.934	17.964	11.442
	ECL TOTAL	40.209	40.517	43.568	28.369
BCCL	West Bengal	2.557	2.142	1.381	0.802
	Jharkhand	33.304	34.895	31.226	18.118
	BCCL TOTAL	35.861	37.037	32.607	18.920
CCL	Jharkhand	61.324	67.047	63.405	34.948
NCL	Uttar Pradesh	12.689	16.056	18.309	12.803
	Madhya Pradesh	67.535	68.040	74.709	52.824
	NCL TOTAL	80.224	84.096	93.018	65.627
WCL	Madhya Pradesh	6.629	5.226	4.446	2.453
	Maharastra	38.187	40.406	41.774	24.093
	WCL TOTAL	44.815	45.632	46.220	26.546
SECL	Madhya Pradesh	13.728	11.925	12.106	7.743
	Chhattisgarh	124.206	128.078	132.603	90.491
	SECL TOTAL	137.934	140.003	144.708	98.234
MCL	Odisha	137.901	139.208	143.058	85.333
NEC	Assam	0.486	0.600	0.781	0.348
CIL		538.754	554.140	567.365	358.325

           

 

Under the provisions of the Coal Mines (Special Provisions) Act. 2015 and Rules made thereunder, so far 25 coal mines (24 to private companies and 1 to a Government Company) have been allocated through Electronic Auction till date. The methodology for auction of coal mines / blocks for sale of coal under the provisions of the CM (SP) Act, 2015 and the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957  [MM(DR) Act, 1957] has been approved by the Government and Order in this regard has been issued on 27.2.2018.

 

As per the current import policy, coal is kept under Open General License (OGL) and consumers are free to import coal from the source of their choice as per their contractual prices on payment of applicable duty. There has been a consistent effort to increase domestic coal production so as to reduce dependence on coal imports. The all India raw coal production has increased from 565.77 MT in 2013-14 to 676.48 MT in 2017-18. Absolute increase in all India coal production from 2013-14 to 2017-18 (four years) is 110.71 MT as compared to increase of coal production of 33.73 MT from 2009-10 to 2013-14 (four years).

Coal India Limited (CIL) has also increased its production from 462.41 MT in 2013-14 to 567.36 MT in 2017-18 (four years), an absolute increase of 105 MT as compared to increase of coal production of 31.15 MT between 2009-10 and 2013-14 (four years).

                                                                                                

Further, in the current year during April-November, 2018, all India coal production was 433.90 MT with a growth rate of 9.8% and coal production of CIL was 358.32 MT with a growth rate of 8.8% over the corresponding period of previous year.

 

However, coking coal will continue to be imported as there is limited availability of coking coal in the country. Further, power plants designed on imported coal will also continue to import coal.

 

This information was given by the Minister of Coal & Railways, Shri Piyush Goyal in a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha today.

*****

SVS/MKV/AP

(Release ID: 1556666) Visitor Counter : 2018