Vijayawada: Due to severe coal shortage, power utilities have reported a deficit of four million units a day, leading to outages in various parts of the state.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy has requested his Telangana counterpart K. Chandrasekhar Rao to incre-ase the daily coal supply to nine rakes a day from the existing supply of four from the Singareni coal mines.