The All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF ) has strongly opposed the “arm-twisting tactics” of Union Power Minister, RK Singh, who recently had threatened to impose penalties on state power discoms, who failed to follow the Centre’s norm of meeting 10% of their fuel requirement with .
The minister had said that his department would be monitoring the discoms and anyone who failed to abide by the rule will see their target of blending imported coal with local one being increased to 15%.
VK Gupta, spokesperson of AIPEF, said that this coal shortage being faced at the moment had not developed overnight and it was a result of systematic policy failure and gross mismanagement on part of the Central government.
