New Delhi [India], May 19 : India's overall coal production has gone up by 47 per cent to 893.08 million tonnes during the last nine years, the Ministry of Coal said in a release Friday.
Coal production of 893.08 MT in 2022-23 was the highest in the country's history.
As per the recently finalised 'Action Plan for 2023-24' by the Ministry of Coal, the coal production target for fiscal 2023-24 is 1,012 million tonnes by enhancing overall production, efficiency, sustainability and adopting new technologies.
'Mission Coking Coal' was launched by the government in August 2021, to develop a roadmap that would suggest ways to augment the production and utilization of domestic coking coal in India by 2030.
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