The production target of  Coal India (CIL) for 2014-15 has been set at 507 MT, said Piyush Goyal, Minister of state for Power, Coal & New and Renewable Energy (Independent Charge) in a written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha today.

CIL has achieved 36.84 million tones of coal production for June 2014, which was 93.8% of target production of 34.55 million tones.

The coal resource available in existing CIL blocks is about 88.42 billion tonnes as assessed by CMPDI. In addition MoC has assigned 119 blocks to CIL which have about 42.90 billion tonnes of coal resources, the Minister added.