Business Standard reported that union coal secretary Mr SK Srivastava ruled out any impact of the row over coal block allocation on the performances of the public sector Coal India Limited saying that the company is surging ahead to achieve its ambitious target of 470 million tonne production in the current financial year.

Mr Srivastava told reporters at Talcher coalfield that “CIL intends to grow at the rate of 7.5% each year and there is absolutely no impact of coal block allocation row on the CIL.”

The secretary was on a day’s visit to Talcher, one of the four richest coalfields in the country, to review coal production and dispatch activities keeping in line with the CIL commitment.

He also held a review meeting with the CMD of Mahanadi Coalfield Limited, the CIL subsidiary in charge of coalfields in Odisha, Mr AN Sahay and his team.

Mr Srivastava said that MCL the second largest company under CIL umbrella, has been given a target of 112 million tonne production and 113 million tonne coal dispatch for the current financial year, he was confident that the coal company would achieve the target.

Source - Business Standard

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