Coal India’s October Dispatches Increase by 10%

Coal India Ltd. in a release said that overall Coal supplies for October 2021 reached 56.7 million tonnes (MT) with nearly 9.7% jump against 51.7 million tonnes (MT) in September last month. This October’s Coal dispatches are also 12% higher than October of last year, when Coal dispatch were 50.7 MT.

Coal India also informed that during the last week of October average per day stock accumulation at thermal power plants was over 3 Lakhs tonnes.

Against Coal consumption of around 1.8 MT per day by the power sector, the supply from Coal India and other sources has been around 2.2 MT per day during the last week of October.