State-owned CIL today said it produced 36.74 million tonnes of coal in July.
The company's target for the month of July was 40.29 million tonnes (MT) of fossil fuel, Coal India (CIL) said in a BSE filing.
The company produced 162.38 MT of coal in the first four months on the ongoing fiscal.
However, the target in April-July period of FY17 was 172.72 million tonnes of coal.
The government has set a production target of 598 million tonnes for CIL for the ongoing fiscal.
The company is eyeing to double its production to one billion tonnes by 2020.
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