What the board decided
At its meeting on 27 July 2026, the Coal India board declared a first interim dividend for FY2026-27 of ₹5.50 per equity share on a face value of ₹10, described in the filing as 55% of face value. The company fixed Friday, 31 July 2026 as the record date for determining shareholder eligibility, and said payment will be made on or before 25 August 2026.
The filing also flags a procedural change: following SEBI's (LODR) (Fifth Amendment) Regulations, 2025, dividends will be paid only through RBI-approved electronic modes. No physical instruments such as warrants, cheques or demand drafts will be dispatched, and shareholders are asked to keep their KYC updated with their depository participant.
The June-quarter numbers
The board also took on record unaudited standalone and consolidated results for the quarter ended 30 June 2026. The consolidated revenue and profit figures are set out in the key-facts panel, with the year-ago quarter for comparison. The auditor's limited-review conclusion was not modified in respect of the matters it raised.
Those matters bear on a holder's reading of the results. The reviewer noted an emphasis-of-matter on the group's stripping-activity accounting policy and — as reported by the statutory auditor of subsidiary South Eastern Coalfields Limited (SECL) — a custodian-mine matter in which CIL has crystallised an amount payable to the Ministry of Coal against a larger demand, with the balance carried as a contingent liability.
A standing governance flag
The standalone review report repeats a point from prior filings: in the absence of the requisite number of independent directors, the composition of the board and its sub-committees — including the Audit Committee and the Nomination and Remuneration Committee — has not complied with Sections 149, 177 and 178 of the Companies Act and Regulations 17, 18 and 19 of LODR. The auditor states this attracts penal provisions. The audit conclusion itself was not modified on this account.