Centre, state government responsible for power crisis in Punjab: PSEB engineers’ association

: The PSEB engineers’ association (PSEBEA) has blamed the Centre and the Punjab government for the unprecedented power crisis in the state fuelled by insufficient coal supply and unwanted closure of thermal plants in Bathinda and Ropar among other reasons, warning that the situation is expected to worsen in the coming months.

The association said that as per available data, Punjab is currently facing about 2,000 MW shortage, resulting in long power cuts across the state and the situation is expected to aggravate during the months of June and July.

The grim power situation in Punjab is driven by insufficient coal supply, inadequate coal stocks in power plants, failure of IIPs at most crucial times, non-operationalisation of Pachwara coal mine, no addition in state sector generation, it said.