Lok Sabha Question No. 915 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2015-12-03
Subject: Requirement of Coal
Ministry: COAL
Asked by: DALPAT SINGH PARASTE, JOSE K. MANI, MAHEISH GIRRI, PONNUSAMY VENUGOPAL, S.P. MUDDAHANUMEGOWDA, GOPALAKRISHNAN CHINNARAJ, SHARAD TRIPATHI, MUTHAMSETTI SRINIVASA RAO (AVNTHI), RAVINDRA KUMAR PANDEY, RANGASWAMY DHRUVANARAYANA, MEENAKASHI LEKHI, CH. MALLA REDDY, K.R.P. PRABAKARAN, PARAYAMPARANBIL KUTTAPPAN BIJU, RODMAL NAGAR

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF COAL

## LOK SABHA

UNSTARRED QUESTION No. 915

TO BE ANSWERED ON 03.12.2015

## Requirement of Coal

915.   SHRI DALPAT SINGH PARASTE:

SHRI JOSE K. MANI :

SHRI MAHEISH GIRRI:

DR. P. VENUGOPAL:

SHRI S.P. MUDDAHANUME GOWDA:

DR. C. GOPALAKRISHNAN:

SHRI SHARAD TRIPATHI:

SHRI MUTHAMSETTI SRINIVASA RAO

(AVANTHI):

SHRIRAVINDRA KUMAR PANDEY:

SHRI R.DHRUVA NARAYANA:

SHRIMATI MEENAKASHI LEKHI:

SHRI CH. MALLA REDDY:

SHRI K.R.P. PRABAKARAN:

SHRI P.K.BIJU:

SHRI NAGAR RODMAL:

## Will the Minister of COAL be pleased to state:

- (a) the  estimate  of  the  total  quantity  of  coal  requirement  for  India  for  electricity generation;
- (b) the rank of India in production of coal in the world;
- (c) the demand , production, supply, import and export of coal in the country during each of the last three years and the current year, company and State-wise and the reasons for gap in demand and supply of coal in the country;
- (d) whether the import of coal has come down and if so, the details thereof and the reasons therefor;
- (e) whether  the  power  generation  has  come  down  due  to  short  supply  of  coal  to various thermal power plants in the country;
- (f) if  so,  the  details  thereof and  the reasons therefor along with  the actual supply of coal to these plants during the said period, plant-wise; and
- (g) whether the Government has fixed the ambitious target for coal production by the year 2020 and if so, the details thereof and the steps taken by the Government to achieve the said target along with the supply of adequate quantity of coal with less ash content to the domestic consumers in the country?

## Answer

## MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) IN THE MINISTERY OF COAL, POWER  AND NEW AND RENEWABLE  ENERGY

## (SHRI PIYUSH GOYAL)

- (a): As per the information from Central Electricity Authority (CEA), coal requirement for power generation during the year 2015-16 has been estimated at 611 MT.
- (b):As  p er  Coal  Directory  of  India  2013-14,  India  is  the  third  largest  country  in production of coal & Lignite in the world.
- (c): As per Annual Plan 2015-16 of Ministry of Coal, the all India  demand, production and  supply, import and export of coal during the last three years and the current year is given below:-

(in million tonnes)

| Year             |   2012-13 |   2013-14 |   2014-15 | 2015-16            |
|------------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------------------|
| Total demand     |    772.84 |    769.69 |    787.03 | 910.00 (Estimated) |
| Total Production |    556.4  |    565.77 |    610.84 | 328.10*            |
| Supply(domestic) |    567.6  |    572.49 |    607.85 | 350.71*            |
| Import           |    145.79 |    166.86 |    212.1  | 108.36*            |
| Export           |      2.44 |      2.19 |      1.24 | 0.80#              |

*April-October 2015       # April-September, 2015

Company-wise and State-wise production of coal in the country during the last three years and the current year is given below:-

|           | Coal Production (Mte)   | Coal Production (Mte)   | Coal Production (Mte)   | Coal Production (Mte)   | Coal Production (Mte)   |
|-----------|-------------------------|-------------------------|-------------------------|-------------------------|-------------------------|
| Company   | State                   | 2012-13                 | 2013-14                 | 2014-15                 | 2015-16                 |
|           |                         | Actual                  | Actual                  | Actual                  | April-Sept 2015 (Prov)  |
|           | West Bengal             | 17.59                   | 18.88                   | 20.61                   | 8.22                    |
|           | Jharkhand               | 16.32                   | 17.17                   | 19.40                   | 6.83                    |
| ECL       |                         | 33.91                   | 36.05                   | 40.01                   | 15.05                   |
|           | West Bengal             | 0.07                    | 1.55                    | 1.05                    | 1.28                    |
|           | Jharkhand               | 31.14                   | 31.07                   | 33.46                   | 15.43                   |
| BCCL      |                         | 31.21                   | 32.61                   | 34.51                   | 16.71                   |
|           | Jharkhand               | 48.06                   | 50.02                   | 55.65                   | 24.75                   |
| CCL       |                         | 48.06                   | 50.02                   | 55.65                   | 24.75                   |
|           | Uttar Pradesh           | 16.09                   | 14.72                   | 14.96                   | 6.16                    |
|           | Madhya Pradesh          | 53.93                   | 53.92                   | 57.53                   | 29.08                   |
| NCL       |                         | 70.02                   | 68.64                   | 72.48                   | 35.24                   |
|           | Madhya Pradesh          | 6.31                    | 5.55                    | 5.79                    | 2.96                    |
|           | Maharashtra             | 35.98                   | 34.18                   | 35.36                   | 15.41                   |
| WCL       |                         | 42.29                   | 39.73                   | 41.15                   | 18.37                   |
|           | Madhya Pradesh          | 15.18                   | 14.12                   | 13.08                   | 6.22                    |
|           | Chattisgarh             | 103.04                  | 110.14                  | 115.19                  | 53.07                   |
| SECL      |                         | 118.22                  | 124.26                  | 128.28                  | 59.29                   |
| MCL       | Odisha                  | 107.89                  | 110.44                  | 121.38                  | 60.03                   |
| NEC       | Assam                   | 0.60                    | 0.66                    | 0.78                    | 0.09                    |
| Total CIL |                         | 452.21                  | 462.42                  | 494.24                  | 229.55                  |
| SCCL      | Andhra Pradesh          | 53.19                   | 50.47                   | 52.54                   | 27.20                   |
| Others    | -                       | 51.00                   | 52.88                   | 65.66                   | 18.54                   |
| Total     |                         | 556.40                  | 565.77                  | 612.44                  | 275.29                  |

The domestic production of coal in the past was constrained mainly due to problems in  expanding  the  capacity  arising  from  difficulties  in  land  acquisition,  R&R,  geomining conditions, difficulties in obtaining environment clearance, restrictions arising out  of  imposition  of  Central  Environmental  Pollution  Index  guidelines  and  nonavailability  of  forest  clearances in  time.  Law  and  order  condition in  some  areas and lack of adequate infrastructure for evacuation of coal including delay in construction of rail Infrastructure have also b een the constraining factor in some major coalfields.

- (d): As p er DGCI&S, during April-October 2015, import of coal has come down by 4.6 per cent from 114 million tonnes in the previous year to 108.4 million tonnes in the current year. This is largely due to the fact that d uring April-October 2015, the coal production  by  CIL  has  increasedto  273.9million  tonnes  from250.9  million  tonnes during the same period in the previous year.
- (e)& (f): As per the information received from CEA, during the year 2015-16 (upto Oct. 2015), coal based power generation was 491.8 BU achieving a growth of around 7.1% against same period last year. During the period April 2015-October 2015, none of the power utility has reported generation loss due to coal shortage.
- (g): An exercise has been carried out by CIL to prepare a roadmap for achieving a coal production  level  of  1  Billion  Tonnes  by  the  year  2019-20.  To  achieve  this  target, mines/ projects to produce about 908.10 Mt have been identified and effort is being made to identify projects for the balance. The focus of the Government is on increasing production  of  Coal  by  facilitating  Environment  & Forest  clearances,  pursuing with State Government for help in expediting land acquisition and coordinated effort with Railways  for  movement  of  coal.  Steps  have  been  taken  by  Coal  India  Ltd. and  its subsidiaries to augment coal production which includes capacity addition from new projects and use of mass production technologies. CIL has planned to set up 15 new washeries of the total capacity about 112 MTY to wash coking and non-coking coal.

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