Coal India Limited (CIL) is a state-controlled coal mining company and the world’s largest producer of coal. Created as a public-sector company in 1975, Coal India Limited was formed to establish better efficiency in the coal sector, under the new department of coal that was established in 1974.
CIL produces coal through seven of its wholly owned subsidiaries: Eastern Coalfields Limited, Bharat Coking Coal Limited, Central Coalfields Limited, Western Coalfields Limited, South-Eastern Coalfields Limited, Northern Coalfield Limited and Mahanadi Coalfields Limited.
In 2018, CIL announced a new policy that would transfer each of its approximate 20,000 executives every five years in an effort to improve management skill sets.
