Coal India's subsidiary Bharat Coking Coal Ltd (BCCL) has posted a record 61 per cent growth in its production to 3.24 million tonne (mt) in February this year over the corresponding month last fiscal, a company statement said.
BCCL, a Dhanbad-based subsidiary of the Maharatna public sector undertaking, also claimed that it registered the highest off-take growth of around 66 per cent to 2.93mt during the last month.
“BCCL has achieved a record growth in coal production and dispatch in February 2022 as compared to the same month last fiscal,” the miner said in the statement on Saturday.
The output increased by 61 per cent in the last month to 3.24mt as compared with 2.01mt in February 2021.
The coal off-take was at 2.93mt last month, up by 66 per cent from 1.76mt in the year-ago month, BCCL said.
After the 2018-19 performance, the Coal India subsidiary is going to produce and dispatch over 30mt of the dry fuel for the first time, overcoming all challenges such as market slowdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic and prolonged monsoon season, it said.
The miner said it achieved a 65 per cent growth in rake loading from an average of 12.6 rakes per day in 2020-21 to 20.9 at present.
The company also claimed that it supplied 59 per cent more coal to power sector consumers during the current financial year.
