• ●Coal India Limited supplied 322.90 MT in April-August of the current fiscal against 302.60 MT a year earlier, a rise of 6.70%.
• ●August supplies: 60.60 MT, up 5.50% year on year; supplies to the power sector rose 4.5% to 48.46 MT.
• ●Stock position: 76 MT at pitheads plus 46 MT of ready-to-mine exposed coal.
• ●Daily production rose from about 1.36 MT over 1-3 September to roughly 1.7 MT on 4 September 2026; overburden removal rose from 2.5 to 4.1 million cubic metres a day over the same span.
• ●CIL is a Maharatna CPSE under the Ministry of Coal, headquartered at Kolkata, and is the world's largest coal producer; it received Maharatna status in 2011.
• ●Its eight subsidiaries are BCCL, CCL, ECL, WCL, SECL, NCL, MCL and the planning arm CMPDI; NCL and SECL have added crushing capacity.
• ●Maharatna eligibility requires existing Navratna status, three-year average turnover above Rs 25,000 crore, net worth above Rs 15,000 crore, net profit above Rs 5,000 crore, listing with prescribed public shareholding, and significant global presence.
• ●Fuel Supply Agreements fix an Annual Contracted Quantity per power plant; CIL has now allowed lifting beyond it by road in addition to rail.

Coal India Limited, the world's largest coal producer, holds which category of central public sector enterprise status?