Kolkata: Coal import by state government-run power producers in Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu last fiscal was 1.4 times higher than in previous year, which some companies said was in part due to quality and logistics related issues in Coal India’s import substitution scheme.
NTPC’s import rose threefold to 960,000 tonnes. Gujarat State Electricity Corporation Ltd, Andhra Pradesh Power Development Company Ltd, Tamil Nadu Generation & Distribution Corporation and West Bengal Power Development Corporation imported a total of 6.9 million tonnes of coal in 2018-19 against 2.9 million tonnes in the previous year.
