Lucknow The All-India Power Engineers’ Federation (AIPEF) has opposed the directive issued by the Central government again on Wednesday to import coal. The power engineers’ body has termed it an attempt by the Central government to put undue pressure on the states and reiterated its demand that since the coal crisis is not the fault of the state power generation plants , additional cost of coal imports should be borne by the Centre.
Shailendra Dubey, chairman, All India Power Engineers’ Federation, said in a statement , “ The order issued by the Centre on Wednesday states that the thermal power stations which have not placed their indents up to June 3 with Coal India Limited for imported coal or have not initiated their own tender process for import of coal for blending purposes will be allocated only 70% of quantity of domestic coal from June 7 and allocation will be further reduced to 60% from June 15. This is clearly an inappropriate response being extended to import coal which is not justified.”
