News Brief | January 2015
Coal India has planned output of 1 billion tonnes by 2020
Coal India (CIL) has been given a gross output target of one billion tonnes of coal by 2019-20, which is around double the current produc-¡tion, Coal and Power Minister Piyush Goyal has said.´To produce 1,000 million tonnes of coal, the expected growth is to come from identified future projects,´ Goyal told the Lok Sabha in a written reply.
´The envisaged growth is possible in brown-field as well as green-field areas and is expected to be achieved through timely completion of new railway infrastructure projects, faster environment clearances and improvement in the law and order situation, apart from technology improvement in mining and related infrastructure,´ he added.