New Delhi: The Union power ministry has warned of cutting domestic coal supply by 5% to generating companies (gencos) if they do not import coal for blending by June 15.
Power minister R K Singh has also separately written to chief ministers of Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka and West Bengal for delaying the process of coal imports.
In a letter to all gencos and state secretaries/principal secretaries on Tuesday, the ministry said “not much blending has taken place in the months of April and May this year”. It further directed them to place all orders for imported coal by May 31 following which imported coal should start arriving from June 15.
