State-owned Coal India Ltd (CIL) reported a 22 percent drop in consolidated net profit at Rs 6,274.80 crore for the quarter ended September 30, 2024 on the back of lower sales.
CIL had posted consolidated net profit of Rs 8,048.64 crore in the year-ago period, according to a regulatory filing.
The company's board also declared the first interim dividend of Rs 15.75 per share for 2024-25.
Consolidated income of the world's largest coal miner in the July-September period dropped to Rs 32,177.92 crore, over Rs 34,760.30 crore in the second quarter of the previous fiscal.
Consolidated sales of the company, which accounts for over 80 percent of India's domestic coal output, declined to Rs 27,271.30 crore during the second quarter, over Rs 29,978.01 crore in the year-ago period.
Coal India has posted a 10 percent rise in its coal output at 773.6 million tonnes in the 2023-24 fiscal year. However, the output fell short of its 780 MT production target for the 2023-24 financial year.
It had produced 703.2 million tonnes (MT) of coal during the preceding 2022-23 fiscal.
CIL said its board has approved the closure of CIL Solar PV Ltd (CSPL), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the company. The closure of CSPL is expected to be completed within a period of 8-10 months.
Since its inception, CSPL has not undertaken any commercial activities, it said.
Central Public Sector Enterprises "are restricted to procure cheaper alternatives of Solar PV manufacturing technologies from countries sharing land border with India, including China, which results in an uneven playing field by making impact on the feasibility of the project," it said.
(With PTI inputs)
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