8 December 2014

Indian coal sector outlay plan for 2014-15

Mr Piyush Goyal, (Minister of state for Power, Coal & New and Renewable Energy (Independent Charge) in a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha, the overall plan outlay for 2014-15 for the coal and lignite sector including the plan outlay of the PSUs works out to INR 12561 crores. The outlay of CIL is INR 5225 crores and of Singareni Collieries Co. Limited (SCCL) and Neyveli Lignite Corporation (NLC) are INR 3850 crores and 2936 crores respectively.

Mr Goyal said that the Outlay for the plan schemes of the Ministry of Coal is INR 550 crores. There is, however, no foreign assistance in budget of the Ministry of Coal.

He said that the all India coal production targets for 2014-15 have been fixed at 630.25 Mte. During the period (April-Oct. 2014), the total production achieved was 314 Mte.

Source - Coal Guru


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