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India’s coking coal output falls 6.94% y-o-y in Jan

March 2: India’s coking coal production in January 2015 fell 6.95% to 5.09 million tons (mt) against 5.47 mt produced in the same month of 2014, according to provisional data available with ICMW.

On a month-on-month basis too, coking coal production in January fell from 5.19 mt produced in December 2014, data revealed.

India’s coking coal output for the month of January was slightly down from the target of 5.51 mt. The annual target for coking coal production in India is set at 57.99 mt for 2014-15.

In the April-January period of the current financial year of 2014-15, India’s coking coal production stood at 45.45 mt, slightly up from 45.14 mt recorded in the same period of the last fiscal (2013-14). 

During January, Coal India Limited (CIL) fell significantly short of its target. During the month its coking coal production stood at 4.48 mt against a target of 4.75 mt and 4.76 mt produced in the same month a year ago.

On a month-on-month basis too CIL’s coking coal production registered a slight drop over 4.49 mt produced in December 2014.

In November, CIL’s coking coal production stood at 4.3 mt while the same stood at 4.01 mt in October. CIL’s coking coal production in September stood at 3.68 mt, while in August it stood at 3.85 mt. In July it stood at 3.36 mt, in June, production of the same stood at 3.82 mt. In May, coking coal production by CIL was at 3.92 mt while the same was 3.73 mt in April 2014.