New Delhi, May 2 -- Coal India Ltd (CIL), the state-owned mining corporation, reported a 1.2 percent decline in coal offtake for April 2025, according to a regulatory filing released on Friday.

The company's offtake fell to 63.4 million tonnes (MT) compared to 64.2 MT during the same month in the previous fiscal year.

Coal production for April remained nearly unchanged at 62.1 million tonnes, showing only a marginal increase from the 61.8 MT produced in April of the previous year.

Coal offtake, which measures the volume of coal supplied from a coal pithead, can differ from production figures as it may include previously stored coal reserves.

The filing comes after Coal India, which accounts for over 80 percent of domestic coal output ...