Centre forcing States to buy imported coal as cover-up of short supply of dry fuel: AIPEF

All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF) on Thursday alleged that the Centre is encroaching upon states’ authority and forcing them to buy imported coal in a cover-up of its own inefficiencies in supplying domestic dry fuel to thermal plants.

The power ministry’s directions issued earlier this month to generating companies is pushing states to import coal to increase blending to supplement domestic coal to offset the short supply of the dry fuel by Coal India Ltd, AIPEF said in a statement.

The ministry has also asked all imported coal-based power units to run at full capacity and said that the upward revision of tariff will be issued by a committee.