WCL surpasses target for coal production
   Date :03-Apr-2020

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Business Bureau :
 
Western Coalfields Limited (WCL) has surpassed its coal production target of 2019-20 by a comfortable margin and has also registered highest ever production in a single day on March 31 amidst lockdown due to COVID19. The company has registered a production of 57.64 Million Tonnes (MT) against the target of 56 MT set for the year 2019-20.
 
It has registered a growth of 8.4 per cent , which is highest among all subsidiaries of CIL. Despite complete lockdown in the country, WCL continued to create new records in production every day during the last week of March, 2020. WCL has been steadily making growth in coal production year-on-year basis since 2014-15. The company had achieved a production of 39.73 MT during 2013-14 and could reach a figure of 57.64 MT in 2019-20 due to opening of 20 new projects during last 5-6 years.
 
However, during this period, the company also lost production to the tune of 22 MT due to closure of mines on exhaustion of reserves. If quick opening of new mines could not have happened, WCL would have gone down to a production level of 17 MT. These 20 mines contributed 41.2 MT during 2019-20, which is more than 70 per cent of total production. Despite being one of the most difficult companies among all subsidiaries of CIL with adverse geo-mining condition and presence of black cotton soil, Team WCL ensured production growth of 57.64 MT in 2019-20.