80 MT coal shortage by 2011-12. (India)

Despite an ambitious growth projection by Coal India Ltd (CIL), the country will face a deficit of 80 million tonne of coal by the end of the eleventh Five Year Plan, according to Union Coal Secretary P C Parikh.

CIL is banking on its subsidiaries Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd, South Eastern Coalfield Ltd, Northern Coalfields Ltd and part of Central Coalfields Ltd to meet this shortfall, he said at the end of his two-day visit to the city on Tuesday.