Coal shortage concerns: Amit Shah meets ministers of coal, power

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Published By : Prameya News Bureau | October 11, 2021 IST

New Delhi, Oct 11: Union home minister Amit Shah today held a meeting with his cabinet colleagues RK Singh and Pralhad Joshi amid reports of the ongoing shortage of coal supply to power plants. As per reports, the meeting was also attended by top officials of the power and coal ministries as well NTPC. Shah discussed the availability of coal to the power sector and the current status of power demand of various states during the meeting which lasted for around one hour. Earlier on Sunday, the Ministry of Coal has reassured that ample coal is available in the country to meet the demand of power plants. The domestic coal based power generation has grown by nearly 24% in this year (till September 2021) based on a robust supply from the coal companies. The daily average coal requirement at the power plants is about 18.5 lakh tonnes of coal per day whereas the daily coal supply has been around 17.5 lakh tonnes per day. Due to extended monsoons the despatches were constrained. The coal available at the power plants is a rolling stock which gets replenished by the supplies from the coal companies on a daily basis. Therefore, any fear of coal stocks depleting at the power plant end is erroneous. In fact this year, domestic coal supply has substituted imports by a substantial measure, the ministry has clarified.

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