Indian state owned Coal India Limited has reported higher coal production and off take figures for October 2020 over the previous corresponding period. On a provisional basis, the company's coal production jumped 18.7% to 46.8 million tonnes in October 2020 from 39.5 million tonnes in October 2019. CIL's coal off take in October 2020 stood at 50.5 million tonnes, recording a 25% growth from 40.4 million tonnes in October 2019.

With its production impeded by the COVID-19 induced slowdown during the first four months of the present fiscal, CIL started logging positive growth from August onward on monthly basis. For the first time in this fiscal, CIL posted a positive growth of 0.9 per cent in cumulative production till October so far. Production during April-October was 282.9 million tonnes which was 2.5 million tonnes more than that during the same period last year.