State-owned CIL on Saturday said it is currently supplying around 3.4 lakh tonnes of coal per day to non-power sector which is the company’s average supply to this segment and stressed that it has sufficient buffer stock to increase supply to the sector. The development assumes significance in the wake of reports of captive power plants in various sectors including steel and aluminium facing fuel shortages.
The non-power sector (NPS) imports around 170 million tonnes (MT) of coal in any given fiscal for blending with domestic coal. But in FY’22 the spiralling international coal prices proved to be a hindrance for importing requisite quantity, giving rise to scarcity of coal at their end.
