Centre asks Coal India to enhance supply to thermal power plants
With the festival season round the corner, Coal India Ltd has been directed by the government to scale up dispatch to thermal power plants.
In a review meeting presided over by Coal Minister Pralhad Joshi, coal companies were advised to enhance supplies to thermal power plants to help them meet the growing electricity demand in the coming few weeks.
During the first half of 2022-23, Coal India had dispatched 285.6 million tonnes of dry fuel to the power sector, which is a growth of almost 17 per cent over previous year.
As a result, coal stock at thermal power plants is now three times more than last year’s stock, official sources said.
