PATIALA: All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF) has written to the Prime Minister on Tuesday seeking withdrawal of the coal import instructions. The power engineers said that the Parliament on Monday was informed that there is no shortage of coal in the country, then why does the Ministry of Power issued instructions for the import of 10% requirement of coal to all the generating companies in a time-bound manner.
\nV K Gupta Spokesperson for AIPEF said on Wednesday that now under the new clarification given by the coal and mines ministry the extra cost of imported coal must be reimbursed by the Ministry of Power.
\nGupta said, \u201cUnder the administrative coercion by the Ministry of Power, most of the state generating companies, thermal power stations, as well as central sector thermal stations such as NTPC, were forced to give consent for the import of coal. The Power Ministry wrote to all state generating companies that If blending with domestic coal is not started by June 15, then the domestic allocation of the concerned defaulter thermal power plants will be further reduced by 5%. In the past few months, all States and even private Generation companies have been directed to import ten percent coal. Those vacillating were threatened by the center of stoppage of supply from Coal India. Around 86.5% of NTPC’s coal import order has been placed with Adani\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
PATIALA: All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF) has written to the Prime Minister on Tuesday seeking withdrawal of the coal import instructions. The power engineers said that the Parliament on Monday was informed that there is no shortage of coal in the country, then why does the Ministry of Power issued instructions for the import of 10% requirement of coal to all the generating companies in a time-bound manner. V K Gupta Spokesperson for AIPEF said on Wednesday that now under the new clarification given by the coal and mines ministry the extra cost of imported coal must be reimbursed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-509640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}