India’s Coal Ministry directs CIL to ramp up daily coal production, dispatch

India’s Coal Ministry has directed Coal India Limited (CIL) to ramp up production to two-million tons a day, up from an average of 1.6-million tons a day at present, and bring down its pithead stocks to nil from 30-million tons currently being carried. More importantly, to mitigate the shortage of coal that power stations across the country feel, CIL has been directed to ensure a daily dispatch of two-million tons, or the same as daily production and eliminate any stock build-up at its mines.