The Centre has asked states to immediately start importing coal to meet power requirements and to lift coal by road as failure to do so may lead to shortages in such states during the monsoon.
Power Minister RK Singh has written to chief ministers of all states which have not started the process of coal import, according to a government release.
In separate letters to Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka and West Bengal, Singh “expressed concern that tender process for coal import has either not started or not completed in these states,” said the release.
