New Delhi, April 2 State-owned CIL subsidiaries Bharat Coking Coal Ltd (BCCL), Central Coalfields Ltd (CCL), Western Coalfields Ltd (WCL), and Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd (MCL) reported a decline in coal production in the recently concluded 2025-26 financial year.This decline in production comes at a time when there is a sharp increase in the country's reliance on coal, triggered by the West Asia crisis, which has tightened global gas and LNG supplies and pushed up the prices of imported coal.
BCCL's production dropped by 12.3 per cent, CCL by 6.1, WCL by 8.8 per cent, and MCL by 3 per cent, according to provisional data from Coal India Ltd (CIL).
South Eastern Coalfields Ltd (SECL) and Northern Coalfields Ltd (NCL) are the two Coal India subsidiaries that registered positive growth. While SECL's production grew by 5.3 per cent, NCL's was up by 1.1 per cent.
However, an industry expert warned that aggressive production targets without adequate storage could lead to widespread coal spoilage, exacerbating supply chain issues in India's energy sector.
"Overproduction of coal just to meet production targets without proper storage could lead to spoilage of coal," former power secretary Anil Razdan told
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