State-owned Coal India Ltd‘s capital expenditure rose 16.64% year-on-year to Rs 3,399 crore in the first quarter of FY27, exceeding its quarterly target as the state-owned miner stepped up spending on land acquisition, mining equipment and coal evacuation infrastructure. The April-June outlay was higher than Rs 2,914 crore in the year-ago period and represented 101.5% of the Rs 3,349-crore quarterly target. It accounted for 20.6% of the company’s Rs 16,500-crore capex plan for the current fiscal.