Centre’s mismanagement led to artificial power crisis: Congress

WITH SEVERAL states facing long power cuts, the Congress on Friday hit out at the central government for its mismanagement of the situation arguing that the Centre was not providing logistical support for coal distribution to power plants leading to the “artificial power crisis” in the scorching summer.

“Today (Friday) morning….the demand for electricity in the energy exchange was 16,035 megawatt and the supply of electricity was only 2,304 megawatt because 72,074 megawatt capacity plants are right now not operating. What is the reason… Is there any scarcity of coal in our country? The answer is no. The coal mines have an appropriate amount of coal,