Coal crisis: Centre puts onus on states amid concerns over power outage, says no need for panic

Amid concerns over power outages due to inadequate coal supply raised by several states, the Coal Ministry on Tuesday claimed that states themselves asked it to not send supplies when the Centre requested them to increase stocks in June this year.

“As far as states are concerned, this year till June we requested them to increase stock, some of them went on to say that ‘please do a favour, don’t send coal now’,” said Coal Minister Pralhad Joshi.