Coal India Ltd, the world’s largest miner, has temporarily stopped coal supplies to its customers from the non-power sector, a company official informed on Thursday. The development comes as India – the world’s second largest coal producer, and among the fourth largest reserves – battles one of its worst power supply deficits in years. However, the company assured that it is only a temporary move till the situation stabilises.
“This is only a temporary prioritisation, in the interest of the Nation, to tide over the low coal stock situation at the stressed power plants and scale up supplies to them,” the source, familiar with Coal India’s plan was quoted as saying by Reuters.
