Coal Ministry achieves transportation of 500 MT coal during H1FY24

Coal Ministry has achieved Record Transportation of 500 million Tonne coal during first half of current fiscal.

During FY24, Coal Ministry has set a target to produce and dispatch 1012 million tonnes (MT) of coal to consumers.  

Dispatch of 500 MT of coal in 200 days, despite monsoon season, in first half of the year, is an outstanding achievement, the ministry said in a statement on Thursday.

Accordingly, during second half of the year, the rate of production and dispatch is normally higher than first half of the year.  It is, therefore, expected that this year dispatch of coal would exceed one billion tonne mark. 

“It is to be noted that out of 500 MT of coal dispatch, 416.57 MT dispatch is for power sector and 84.77MT is for non-regulatory sector.  The growth of coal transport to power sector year to year is 7.27% and growth to non-regulated sector year to year is 38.02%”, the Coal Ministry added.