<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.3333px;">The Coal Ministry has said that coal imports declined to 209 Million Tonnes in 2021-22 against 248 Million Tonnes in 2019-20. </span><span style="color: #222222;">It said that power sector coal imports came down by forty per cent. Overall coal production has increased by 61 Million Tonnes during 2021-22.<br />''<br />''The Ministry informed that the decline in coal import during 2021-22 is largely due to decrease in imports by the Power Sector which came down from 45 Million Tonnes in 2020-21 to 27 Million Tonnes in 2021-22. It further informed that the total thermal power generation in the country increased to 1,115 Billion Units in 2021-22 from 1,032 Billion Units in 2020-21.</span>