• ●CIL average daily production: about 1.36 MT during 1-3 September 2026 (rain-affected), rising about 35% to about 1.83 MT on 6 September 2026.
• ●Average daily despatch to the power sector: about 1.37 MT to 1.7 MT, up 24%. Subsidiary-wise, production rose about 61% at NCL (0.18 to 0.29 MT) and 33% at SECL (0.15 to 0.20 MT); power despatch rose 56% at NCL (0.18 to 0.28 MT) and 23% at SECL (0.30 to 0.37 MT).
• ●Overburden removal, the indicator of future production readiness, doubled from 2.5 million cubic metres to 5.1 MCuM daily — up fourfold at NCL and more than threefold at SECL.
• ●Rake loading to the power sector: 370 rakes/day on 03.09.2026, 387 on 04.09, 413 on 05.09 and 444 on 06.09 — a cumulative gain of 74 rakes/day, about 20%. MCL led with 111 rakes (up 12); total CIL siding loading reached 305 rakes/day.
• ●A thermal plant is treated as 'critical' when its coal stock falls below 25% of the normative requirement.
• ●Coal India Limited is a Maharatna PSU under the Ministry of Coal, incorporated in 1975 and headquartered at Kolkata; it accounts for roughly 82% of India's coal production and is the world's single largest coal producing company.
• ●The Singareni Collieries Company Limited, which also supplies power-sector rakes, is jointly owned by the Government of Telangana and the Government of India in a 51:49 ratio, was incorporated on 23 December 1920 and is headquartered at Kothagudem.
• ●Policy backdrop: coal is allocated to power plants under the SHAKTI policy (Scheme for Harnessing and Allocating Koyala Transparently in India), issued by the Ministry of Coal on 22 May 2017; commercial coal mine auctions run under the Coal Mines (Special Provisions) Act, 2015, with commercial mining auctions beginning on 18 June 2020 and 100% FDI permitted under the automatic route in coal mining.

The Singareni Collieries Company Limited is jointly owned by the Government of India and which state government, which holds the majority stake?