In the current financial year 2022-2023 (upto February, 2023), the country has produced about 785.24 MT of coal as compared to about 681.98 MT during the same period of last year with a growth of about 15.14%. The all India coal production in the year 2021-2022 was 778.19 Million Tonne (MT) in comparison to 716.08 MT in the year 2020-2021 with a growth of about 8.67%. Most of the requirement of coal in the country is met through indigenous production / supply. The focus of the Government is on increasing the domestic production of coal and to eliminate non-essential import of coal in the country.

Details of coal supply, imports and consumption in the country for the last five years are as under:

[Figures in Million Tonnes (MT)]
Year	2017-18	2018-19	2019-20	2020-21	2021-22
Total Consumption / Demand (a+b)	898.25	968.14	955.72	906.13	1027.92
Total Import (b)	208.25	235.35	248.54	215.25	208.93
Total Domestic coal Supply (a)	690.00	732.79	707.18	690.88	818.99

For the year 2022-23, the total import upto December, 2022 is 186.06 MT and the total domestic coal supply upto February 2023 is 794.96 MT.

The 5 major overseas supplier countries of coal are Indonesia, Australia, South Africa, USA & Russia.

This information was given by the Minister of Coal, Mines and Parliamentary Affairs Shri Pralhad Joshi in a written reply in Rajya Sabha today.

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