Coal Production

Coal Production

CONTEXT: India’s coal production declined by 2.03 per cent in the financial year 2020-21 to 716 million tonnes as compared to the production level of 730.87 million tonnes seen in the previous year, according to provisional coal statistics from the Ministry of Coal

CONCEPT:

• Coal imports to India declined by 13.5 per cent to 215 million tonnes. The lion’s share was exported by Indonesia, which supplied 96 million tonnes of coal to India during the fiscal year. Australia exported 55 million tonnes to India, and was also the largest supplier of coking coal.
• The production from captive coal blocks in the country grew 8 per cent to 66 million tonnes. Production of thermal coal in the country stood at 671 million tonnes.
• The highest thermal coal-producing State, Chhattisgarh produced 158 million tonnes, accounting for 24 per cent of the overall thermal coal production, followed by Odisha and Madhya Pradesh. Jharkhand, which accounts for nearly all of India’s coking coal production, produced 44 million tonnes of coking coal.