Indian coal mine location and production - December 2020

We obtained information on coal mines in India, their production, and location by filing applications under the Right to Information (RTI) Act, 2005 with leading coal companies such as Coal India Limited & its subsidiary companies, Singareni Collieries Company Limited and NLC Ltd. We also filed these applications with the Indian Coal Ministry and the Coal Controller Organization (India’s coal sector regulator). The RTI Act in India is the similar to Freedom of Information Act in many other countries. Most RTI replies were in PDF format with details of the mines. We individually entered the mine names and other details in excel to create the dataset. PDFs can be made available upon reasonable request and on a case by case basis as the PDFs contain \"personal data\" of the researcher. The geocoordinates were created by researchers using latitude/longitude data using published in various government documents or using GoogleMaps. Most of the coordinates are exact but some are approximate but within the same local region as the exact coordinates were not available.