The country’s largest coal producer and supplier CIL on Tuesday said it has upped its supplies by 14.2 per cent to coal-based electricity generating plants in the first half of the current month, but soaring power demand due to hotter-than-normal summer seems to have dwarfed the upsurge in supplies.
Coal India (CIL) said that it is coordinating with the ministries of coal, power and railways to build up stocks at power plants in a synergic effort, in the wake of a decline in coal stocks at power plants.
“Amid the spiraling power generation, CIL raised its supplies to thermal power stations by 14.2 per cent during the first half of April’22 compared to the same period last April,” the maharatna company said.
