With the improvement in the coal supply in the last couple of days, the state authorities expect the situation to regularise by bridging the demand-supply gap by the end of the week. Currently, the state authorities are compelled to purchase power from the open market at a high rate, and cutting the supply to the agricultural pump by two hours to meet the demand.
The short supply of coal for thermal power generation in the last two weeks has resulted in shutting down of 13 units of state-owned and private power stations resulting in drop in generation of more than 3,300 MW.
