Coal India achieves record October coal supplies above 70 MT with all-time-high power-sector deliveries

Key facts

• Coal India (CIL) supplied 70.3 mt of coal in October, crossing the 70-mt monthly mark for the first time, a 19 per cent rise over the 59.2 mt supplied in the corresponding month last year.
• The previous CIL monthly supply record was 69.4 mt, achieved in March.
• CIL's supplies to the power sector hit an all-time monthly high of 57.1 mt, up 19 per cent from 48 mt in October 2025 and surpassing the previous record of 56.5 mt recorded in May 2024.
• CIL's coal production in October stood at 67.2 mt, the highest ever for the month in any financial year, about 19 per cent higher than 56.38 mt produced in October last year and above the previous October record of 62.47 mt achieved in 2024.
• CIL recorded an average power-sector railway loading of 310 rakes per day in October, the highest monthly average in its history; the loading last crossed the 300-rake mark in March 2025 at 302.8 rakes per day.
• CIL subsidiary Mahanadi Coalfields crossed the 20-mt monthly supply mark for the first time in October.