Supply of power to the non-regulated sectors (NRS) has dipped 28.5% on year so far in the current financial year, despite the PSU miner, Coal India (CIL) achieving 24.3% increase in production and 10.6 % increase in offtake. While CIL’s total daily despatch of rakes during July this year has increased to 261 from 244.5 rakes during the same month last year, daily despatches of rakes to the NRS consumers decreased to 12.7 from 33.9 during the same month a year before.
June was an even worse month for NRS consumers, when supplies to them went down to 10.8 rakes per day against 41 rakes during June last year. Total rake despatches increased to an average of 288.5 a day during June this year against 262.8 rakes a day during the same month last year, according to coal ministry data.
