State-owned CIL on Monday reported a 12.6 per cent year-on-year rise in coal production to 51.4 million tonnes (MT) last month.
The PSU had produced 45.7 MT of coal in the year-ago period, Coal India Ltd (CIL) said in a BSE filing.
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The company's output in the April-September period also increased by 11.3 per cent to 332.9 MT against 299 MT a year ago, it added.
CIL's offtake in September increased by 12.6 per cent to 55.1 MT compared to 48.9 MT in the corresponding month of the previous fiscal.
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The offtake of the Maharatna firm in the April-September period also went up by 8.6 per cent to 360.7 MT against 332 MT in the year-ago period.
Coal offtake is the amount of dry fuel supplied from the coal pitheads.
Coal India accounts for over 80 per cent of domestic coal output.
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