Coal India

Coal India Limited
Native name
कोल इंडिया लिमिटेड
Company typePublic
ISININE522F01014
IndustryMining, Refinery
Founded1975; 49 years ago (1975)
Headquarters
Kolkata, West Bengal
,
India
Area served
India
Key people
PM Prasad
(Chairman & MD)[1]
ProductsCoal
RevenueIncrease ₹150,293.06 crore (US$18 billion) (2024)[2]
Increase ₹48,385.78 crore (US$5.8 billion) (2024)[2]
Increase ₹37,369.13 crore (US$4.5 billion) (2024)[2]
Total assetsIncrease ₹237,672.26 crore (US$28 billion) (2024)[2]
Total equityIncrease ₹83,581.90 crore (US$10 billion) (2024)[2]
OwnerGovernment of India
Number of employees
228,861 (excluding 111,124 contractual workers) (April 2024)[3]
Websitewww.coalindia.in

Coal India Limited (CIL) is an Indian public sector undertaking and the largest government-owned coal producer in the world.[4][5][6] Headquartered in Kolkata, it is under the administrative control of the Ministry of Coal, Government of India.[2]

It accounts for around 82% of the total coal production in India.[7] It produced 554.14 million tonnes of raw coal in 2016–17,[8] an increase from its earlier production of 494.24 million tonnes of coal during FY 2014–15[9][7] and earned revenues of ₹95,435 crore (US$11 billion)[7] from sale of coal in the same financial year.[9][10] In April 2011, CIL was conferred the Maharatna status by the Government of India, making it one of the seven with that status.[11][12][13] As of 14 October 2015,[14] CIL is a PSU owned by the Central Government of India[15] which controls its operations through the Ministry of Coal.[4] As of 14 October 2015, CIL's market capitalisation stood at ₹2.11 lakh crore (US$25 billion) making it India's 8th most valuable company.[16][17][18]

CIL ranks 8th among the top 20 firms responsible for a third of all global carbon emissions.[19]

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