{"id":15752,"date":"2012-10-20T06:13:29","date_gmt":"2012-10-20T04:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/10\/update-1-coal-india-may-top-464-mln-t-target-in-201213-minister\/"},"modified":"2012-10-20T06:13:29","modified_gmt":"2012-10-20T04:13:29","slug":"update-1-coal-india-may-top-464-mln-t-target-in-201213-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-1-coal-india-may-top-464-mln-t-target-in-201213-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 1-Coal India may top 464 mln T target in 2012\/13-minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Coal output up 9 pct in April-Oct. 15 vs year ago &#8211;<br \/>\nminister<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Supply to power sector up 12 pct at 170.17 mln T<\/p>\n<p> (Adds quotes, details)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">NEW DELHI<\/span> Oct 19 (Reuters) &#8211; A nine percent jump in Coal<br \/>\nIndia Limited&#8217;s production so far this fiscal year has<br \/>\nmade it possible that the world&#8217;s top coal producer will exceed<br \/>\nits full-year target of 464 million tonnes, the coal minister<br \/>\nsaid on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Coal India has produced 208.3 million tonnes from April 1 to<br \/>\nOct. 15, Sriprakash Jaiswal told reporters, compared with 191.1<br \/>\nmillion tonnes a year ago.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Last (fiscal) year&#8217;s performance was not very good due to<br \/>\nvarious reasons. But this year we are hopeful of Coal India<br \/>\nexceeding the target of 464 million tonnes,&#8221; Jaiswal said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The state-run miner, which accounts for about 80 percent of<br \/>\nthe country&#8217;s coal output, has repeatedly lagged production aims<br \/>\ndue to lower productivity for various reasons, including delays<br \/>\nin obtaining environment and forestry approvals for new mines.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Last fiscal year, the company achieved only 96.5 percent of<br \/>\nits output target, producing 435.84 million tonnes.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Jaiswal also said supply to the power sector, the country&#8217;s<br \/>\ntop coal consumer, rose 12 percent to 170.17 million tonnes<br \/>\nduring the April-October period.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Around 66 percent of India&#8217;s power generation is coal-based.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Coal output up 9 pct in April-Oct. 15 vs year ago &#8211; minister * Supply to power sector up 12 pct at 170.17 mln T (Adds quotes, details) NEW DELHI Oct 19 (Reuters) &#8211; A nine percent jump in Coal India Limited&#8217;s production so far this fiscal year has made it possible that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-15752","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}