Summary
The drop shows the country is trying to use more coal that comes from inside India. 🌱
Power plants still need some imported coal, but the amount is going down.
Key Points
5 points1
Coal imports fell by 5.83 percent in August 2026.
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Total imported coal was 104.57 million tonnes.
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Imports for mixing coal at power plants dropped by about 35 percent.
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Some power plants that only use imported coal bought a tiny bit more.
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The share of imported coal in total use went down to 19.3 percent.
New Words to Learn
10 wordsimports
bringing goods from other countries
domestic
made inside the country
coal
a black rock used for energy
blending
mixing together
coking coal
a special kind of coal used to make steel
steel industry
companies that make strong metal
infrastructure
big things like roads and railways that help move things
evacuation
moving something from one place to another
railways
trains and tracks
subsidiaries
smaller companies that belong to a bigger one
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