India has bandwidth to substitute about 150 MT of imported coal with domestic production: Official

India has the bandwidth to substitute about 150 million tonnes of imported coal, Sanjeev Kumar Kassi, Joint Secretary at the Ministry of Coal told reporters in response to a query about the country’s import dependency of the carbon compound.

The senior official explained that India imports approximately 250 million tonnes (MT) of coal annually every fiscal year. Of this, 60 MT is coking coal, and 40 MT is utilised by power plants that are designed to function solely with imported coal as the primary input.