Coal India devises plans to achieve 1 billion tonnes target by 2020
The Dollar Business Bureau With India’s coal demand projection for 2019-20 standing at around 1,200 million tonne (MT), the Coal India Limited (CIL) is aiming at 1 billion tonne (BT) production mark for the similar period. CIL, a major public sector unit, has unveiled its roadmap of strategies to attain the said coal production target. While the projected coal demand of the country is expected to grow at the rate of 7%, the CIL is expecting a total contribution of 908 million tonnes from the projects that have been identified so far, said a recent release. And, the process of projects’ identification to share the balance quantity, to top up the one BT mark, is also underway, the release ...
