New Delhi (India), April 4 (nor): India has reached a historical milestone because 20 March in 2024-25 exceeded one billion tons of coal production and exceeded the last fiscal year of 997.83 million tons (MT).
With the fifth largest coal reservations and the second largest consumer, coal remains essential, which contributes 55 % to the national energy mix and supports more than 74 percent of total energy production.
According to the Ministry of coal, coal success is attributed to the tireless efforts of public coal (dog) companies, private players and specialized workforce of approximately 5 LakH mining workers across more than 350 coal mines.
“These coils, who resisted many challenges with unrivaled determination, played a key role in achieving this historical milestone,” the ministry said in a statement.
Indian coal production in 2024-25 reached 1.04 billion tons (interim) compared to 997.83 MT in 2023-24, which meant a growth of 4.99 %.
Production from commercial, captured and other entities also recorded a remarkable increase, reached 197.50 MT (interim)-28.11 percent compared to the record of the previous year by 154.16 Mt.
Coal production concerns the extraction of coal from the mines.
Ual Dispatch has also exceeded one billion tonne milestones, with the total expedition reached 1024.99 MT (interim) in 2024-25, which is 5.34 % of 973.01 MT in 2023-24.
The expedition of commercial, captured and other entities witnessed an even more significant increase and reached 196.83 MT (interim)-no growing by 31.39 % compared to 149.81 MT in the previous year.
The coal dispatching concerns the process of transporting and distributing this coal to various consumers, including power plants and industrial equipment.
The Indian coal parallel sector achieves a significant reduction in imports.
Coal imports decreased by 8.4 % to 183.42 Mt in April-December 2024 from $ 200.19 in the same period of 2023-24, saving $ 5.43 billion (USD ( £42,315,7 crore) in foreign exchange.
Coal is vital to Indian energy needs and gives more than half of the country’s power. Despite the growth of renewable energy, the thermal energy of coal will remain necessary, and its share by 2030 and 27 % by 2047 (or) assumes its share of 55 %.
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