Coal India Limited was established on which date?
- A.1 November 1975
- B.1 November 1973
- C.1 April 1975
- D.15 August 1976
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Explanation
The correct answer is 1 November 1975. The miner marked its 51st Foundation Day on 1 November 2026, which places its establishment exactly fifty-one years earlier, and it has now stepped into its 52nd year of service. The other three dates are near misses of the kind a paper setter builds around an anniversary. Option B keeps the day and month but moves the year back, option C keeps the year but shifts the day to the start of the financial year, and option D offers an unrelated date in the following year. The company's growth since that date is itself asked about: output in the first year of operations was 79 MT, and by 2025-26 annual production had climbed to 768 MT, nearly a tenfold rise across five decades. Its production target for 2026-27 has been fixed at 815 MT. Candidates should carry the founding date and these three output figures together.
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Practice Questions
What was Coal India's highest-ever monthly coal production, recorded in October 2026?
- A.57.1 MT
- B.62.47 MT
- C.67.2 MT
- D.70.3 MT
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In October 2026 Coal India mined more coal in a month than ever before, and the figure stood at 67.2 MT.
Read the full explanation →What production target has been set for Coal India for 2026-27?
- A.768 MT
- B.800 MT
- C.815 MT
- D.850 MT
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That is the quantity of coal the company has been asked to mine in 2026-27.
Read the full explanation →Coal India's record daily rake loading for the power sector in October 2026 was:
- A.302.8 rakes
- B.310 rakes
- C.280 rakes
- D.325 rakes
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Moving coal out of the pithead matters as much as digging it, and rail is the main carrier, so the company reports how many rakes are loaded each day for power stations.
Read the full explanation →Which segment of coal imports recorded the steepest decline of 35.23 per cent in August 2026?
- A.Coking coal imports for the steel industry
- B.Imports by imported coal-based power plants
- C.Imports for blending at domestic coal-based plants
- D.Overall power sector imports
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Coal brought in to be mixed with Indian coal at these stations fell from 4.64 million tonnes to 3 million tonnes, a decline of 35.23 per cent, and this is read as a sign that enough domestic coal was available for generation so less blending material had to be bought…
Read the full explanation →What was the share of imported coal in India’s total coal consumption in August 2026?
- A.21.20 per cent
- B.19.30 per cent
- C.18.31 per cent
- D.1.90 per cent
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Imported coal accounted for this share of all the coal India consumed during August 2026, which marks a reduced reliance on foreign supplies for the month.
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