The Coal Ministry on 6 December 2011 turned down Coal India’s (CIL) plea for scaling down current fiscal 2011-12 ‘s output target to 448 million tonnes (MT) from 452 MT.
Fearing that it will not be able to make up the slippage in output that occurred during the first half of 2011-12, CIL which accounts for 81 per cent of domestic production had asked the coal ministry to revise the target.
CIL was instructed to surpass the target, which was possible and required given the paucity of coal.
The country's demand-supply gap is expected to reach 142 MT in 2011-12, as against the country's estimated output of 554 MT. The Planning Commission projected the demand-supply to touch 200 MT in the next five years.
CIL had missed its April-September target by about 20 MT, recording an output of 176 MT, as against 196 MT planned. CIL had blamed the inclement weather, including heavy rains in August-September for disruptions.
The five CIL trade unions had in October 2011 assured the ministry of their best efforts to meet the production target after their employee bonuses were revised upward to Rs 20000 per worker instead of the earlier announced Rs 17000.
CIL had missed its production target in 2010-11 as well recording an output of 431 MT, as against the revised target of 440 MT.
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