Coal Minister Pralhad Joshi has written to chief ministers of all states asking them to not import the dry fuel and take domestic supply of fuel from state-owned CIL, which has the fossil fuel in abundance. The development comes at a time when there is a drop in power demand in the country in the wake of the lockdown imposed to contain the deadly coronavirus.
A source privy to the development said the “Coal Minister a few days back wrote to chief ministers of all the states asking them to not import coal”.
The minister asked the states to take the domestic supply of coal from Coal IndiaNSE -1.03 % Ltd (CIL) which has ample availability of the dry fuel, the source added.
