INCREASE THE coal-storing capacity and deploy more wagons and rakes – these are among the long- and short-term measures the government will take to mitigate the critical shortfall of coal stockpile in thermal power plants and to ensure that the capacity to transport and hold coal in the plants increases in future.
With coal stock depleting to critical levels in a number of thermal power plants, three ministries concerned went into a huddle on Tuesday and chalked out the various measures.
With monsoon affecting production in several Coal India pits, a number of power plants have stocks that would last them about a week, officials said.
