Lok Sabha Question No. 167 (STARRED), answered on 2016-07-28
Subject: Requirement of Coal
Ministry: COAL
Asked by: ASHOK MAHADEORAO NETE, SHARAD TRIPATHI

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF COAL LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. 167

## TO BE ANSWERED ON 28.07.2016

'Requirement of Coal'

## *167.  SHRI ASHOK MAHADEORAO NETE: SHRI SHARAD TRIPATHI:

Will the Minister of COAL be pleased to state :

- (a) whether the Government has assessed total annual requirement of coal to run all the thermal power plants and meet the coal needs of other industries during the last three years and the current year and if so, the details thereof;
- (b) the target fixed and achieved in the production of coal during each of the last three years and the current year, company-wise;
- (c) the reasons for not achieving the targets during the said period; and
- (d) whether the Government has formulated any action plan to increase the production of coal so as to meet the shortage of coal during the current Five Year Plan, and if so, the details thereof separately for domestic production and import of coal?

## A N S W E R

MINISTER  OF  STATE  (I/C)  IN  THE  MINISTRY  OF  COAL,  POWER,  NEW  & RENEWABLE ENERGY AND MINES

## (SHRI PIYUSH GOYAL)

(a)to(d): A statement is laid on the Table of the House.

Statement referred to in reply to parts (a) to (d) of Lok Sabha Starred Q.No. 167 for answer on 28.07.2016 asked by SHRI ASHOK MAHADEORAO NETE AND SHRI SHARAD TRIPATHI.

(a): Yes Madam. The totalannual assessed requirement of coal is as under:

## ( Figures in Million Tonnes (MT))

|   Sl. No. | Sectors                         |   2013-14 |   2014-15 |   2015-16 |   2016-17 |
|-----------|---------------------------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
|         1 | Coking Coal( Steel + Coke Oven) |     51.83 |     55.46 |        77 |     56.62 |
|         2 | Power (Utility)                 |    504    |    551.6  |       604 |    598.73 |
|         3 | Power (Captive)                 |     47    |     50    |        69 |     91.11 |
|         4 | Cement                          |     24.41 |     26.12 |        38 |     34.37 |
|         5 | Steel DRI                       |     22.29 |     23.85 |        34 |     24.05 |
|         6 | Others                          |     80    |     80    |        88 |     80    |
|         7 | Total Non-Coking                |    677.7  |    731.57 |       833 |    828.25 |
|         8 | Total                           |    729.53 |    787.03 |       910 |    884.87 |

Actual Coal supply/consumption during the years2013-14, 2014-15 and 2015-16 are739.34 MT, 822.13 MT and 634.09 MT (provisional and excluding import) respectively.

(b)&  (c): Subsidiary-wise  raw  coal  production  target  and  achievement  of  Coal  India Limited& SCCL during each of the last three years and the current year are given below:

## (Figures in Million Tonnes (MT))

| Subsidiary   | 2016-17 (uptoJune, 2016) (Provisional)   | 2016-17 (uptoJune, 2016) (Provisional)   | 2015-16   | 2015-16   | 2014-15   | 2014-15   | 2013-14   | 2013-14   |
|--------------|------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
|              | Target                                   | Actual                                   | Target    | Actual    | Target    | Actual    | Target    | Actual    |
| ECL          | 10.554                                   | 8.819                                    | 42.130    | 40.209    | 38.000    | 40.008    | 34.500    | 36.054    |
| BCCL         | 9.599                                    | 8.901                                    | 35.850    | 35.861    | 34.000    | 34.514    | 32.500    | 32.614    |
| CCL          | 12.750                                   | 12.909                                   | 60.600    | 61.324    | 55.000    | 55.652    | 53.500    | 50.022    |
| NCL          | 20.500                                   | 20.452                                   | 78.100    | 80.224    | 77.000    | 72.484    | 72.200    | 68.639    |
| WCL          | 9.599                                    | 8.336                                    | 45.100    | 44.815    | 44.000    | 41.147    | 44.000    | 39.729    |
| SECL         | 34.212                                   | 32.095                                   | 137.000   | 137.934   | 131.000   | 128.275   | 124.300   | 124.261   |
| MCL          | 35.066                                   | 34.092                                   | 150.000   | 137.901   | 127.000   | 121.379   | 120.000   | 110.439   |
| NEC          | 0.145                                    | 0.041                                    | 1.220     | 0.486     | 1.000     | 0.779     | 1.000     | 0.664     |
| CIL          | 132.425                                  | 125.645                                  | 550.000   | 538.754   | 507.000   | 494.238   | 482.000   | 462.422   |
| SCCL         | 14.87                                    | 14.11                                    | 56.00     | 60.38     | 55.00     | 52.36     | 54.30     | 50.47     |

For the year 2013-14, against a target of 482 MT, only 462.422 MT was produced by CIL  resulting  in  a  shortfall  of  20  MT.  However,  with  the  focus  on  increasing  coal production since June 2014, against the original targetted increase of 25 MT from 482 MT    to  507  MT  in  2014-15,  production  of  CIL  actually  increased  by  32  MT.Further, increase  of  44  MT  in  2015-16  is  highest  ever  addition  to  coal  produced.  These  two years (2014-16) combined incremental production of 76 MT is higher than the combined incremental production of the entire 11 th plan period.

This was possible by deploying measures as explained in part (d) of the answer.

(d): To enhance production and evacuation of coal, the following measures have been taken:

-  CIL has prepared a road map to reach a coal production level of 1 billion Ton by the year 2019-20 for which mines /projects to produce 908.1 MT have already been identified.
-  Works on three critical railway  lines  in  the  growing  coalfields of  Odisha, Jharkhand&Chattisgarh.
-  Deployment  of  high  capacity/  high  productivity  equipment  in  OC  &  UG mines of CIL.
-  Increase  in  the  production  from  existing  mines  by  improving  capacity utilisation through efficiency improvement and modernization.
-  Implementation of on-going projects in a time bound manner.
-  Enhancement of exploration capacity  by induction of modern equipment and outsourcing.
-  Expediting steps for obtaining EC/FC within the scheduled time frame.

At this juncture, there is no reported shortage of coal. As far as imports are concerned, coal is under Open General License and hence can be freely imported by the parties interested. However, keeping in view of enhanced domestic coal production, steps are being undertaken to substitute imported coal with domestic coal.

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