Withdraw coal import instructions: AIPEF

All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF) has urged the Prime Minister to direct the Ministry of Power to withdraw its orders on coal import in the light of coal minister Pralhad Joshi reply in the Rajya Sabha on Monday stating that there is no shortage of coal in the country and that production of coal is 31% more in the current financial year as compared to the same period last year.

Seeking the prime minister’s intervention in the matter, Shailendra Dubey, chairman AIPEF urged him to direct the ministry of power to withdraw its “coercive orders” to the states and its gencos, forcing them to expedite coal imports, which were “neither required nor justified”, especially in view of the ministry of coal’s reply in Parliament.