4.15 (0.99%) Coal India's actual coal dispatch under the five e-auction windows at 77.4 million tonnes (MTs) jumped ahead by 31% during April-December'21 compared to 59 MTs corresponding Period Year ago. Special forward e-auction, the exclusive window meant for power sector, accounted for nearly 28 MTs of the total dispatched quantity.
Coal supplied under other e-auction outlets, where predominantly non-regulated sector customers access coal, accounted for 49.5 MTs. Under this category, the company logged a growth of 21% compared to 41 MTs of same period last year and a two-fold increase over 24.4 MTs of comparable period 2019.
Coal India is the world’s largest coal mining company. It also produces non-coking coal and coking coal of various grades for diverse applications.