Coal supply to power plants in country hit hard
Work at the Talcher Coalfields of the Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL) remained paralysed on a sixth consecutive day on Monday, affecting the fuel supply to coal-fired power plants in the country severely.
The Talcher coalfields, producing on an average of 2.1 lakh tonnes of coal per day, came to a grinding halt from evening of July 24 after a landslide in its Bharatpur Open Cast Project (OCP).
The company has not been able to produce or dispatch coal due to forced closure of mines. Not even a single cubic meter of overburden has been removed during all these days, forcing mining equipment catching rust.
