Centre should compensate States for importing coal: AIPEF

The All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF) has urged the central government to compensate states for importing coal in the absence of adequate dry fuel for thermal plants.

“AIPEF has demanded that the Centre compensate each and every state that is being forced to import coal in absence of adequate domestic coal. In absence of this financial help, financial condition of the utilities will deteriorate further,” an AIPEF statement said.

V K Gupta, spokesperson for AIPEF, said the federation has written a letter to Union Power Minister R K Singh in this regard. The letter said forcing states to import coal to bridge the supply-demand gap, “created through sheer mismanagement and lack of anticipation and planning is not appreciable”.