India is a major importer of low ash coking coal, but has considerable reserves of quality low volatile coking coal, currently being sold to power plants with 35-50% ash or after de-shaling The main producer of coking coal in India is Bharat Coking Coal Ltd along with Coal India Ltd.

During 2018-19, the total demand of coking coal for the steel industry was 58.37 million tonne (MT). Out of this, 51.83 MT was met through imports, 1.6 MT was provided by Bharat Coking Coal Ltd (BCCL) and Coal India Ltd (CIL) and the remaining was catered by captive collieries of SAIL and Tata Steel.

Through sustained programme of investment and greater thrust on application of modern technologies, it has been possible to raise the All India production of coal at 728.72 million tonnes in 2018-19. The all India Production of coal during 2019-20 were 729.10 MT  with a positive growth was 0.05%.

BCCL COAL RESERVES (in million tonnes) : (As on 1st April, 2020)