New Delhi, Jan. 13 -- The first mainboard initial public offering (IPO) of the year by Bharat Coking Coal Limited (BCCL), a subsidiary of Coal India, garnered bumper response from investors, extending the solid primary market performance after a blockbuster 2025.

The BCCL IPO, which opened for bidding on Friday, January 9 and closed today, January 13, garnered over 146 times bids.

At the end of the third and final day of bidding, the qualified institutional buyer (QIB) segment of BCCL IPO was booked 310.81 times. Its non-institutional investor (NII) quota received 258.02 times bids, and the retail portion closed with 49.25 times subscription.

The employee and shareholder quotas also saw robust demand, with 5.17 and 87.20 times bids, re...