With rising concern of Blackout, Coal shortage skyrocketing
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The Centre said the huge coal shortage affecting power plants will be handled in the next few days, as several states, including Delhi, raised concerns over impending blackouts. The shortage is faced due to a hike in global coal prices.
Several states, including Gujarat, Punjab, Rajasthan, Delhi and Tamil Nadu, have raised concerns over blackouts. Punjab has already imposed rotational load shedding at several places due to the severe coal shortage at thermal power plants.
According to Union minister for power RK Singh a "panic has been unnecessarily created about coal shortage" and this is due to miscommunication from GAIL and Tata. “The country has four days' reserve. We have sufficient power available... We are supplying power to the entire country. Whoever wants, give me a requisition and I will supply them," the minister said.
Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said the centre's statement that all is well with the coal stock situation is "irresponsible". Sisodia drew parallels with the medical oxygen shortage in Delhi during the COVID-19 second wave. "When we had an oxygen crisis, they kept saying there was no such crisis. The coal situation is similar. We have a crisis today," Sisodia said.
The government listed four reasons for the depletion of coal stocks at power plants -- the unprecedented increase in demand for electricity due to revival of the economy, heavy rains in coal mine areas, increase in the price of imported coal and legacy issues such as heavy dues of coal companies in certain states like Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh.
Chhattisgarh has said that it is making efforts to ensure that there is no shortage of supply in the state. In south, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy has sought Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "urgent personal attention" calling the situation "quite alarming".
As per reports, an inter-ministerial sub-group led by the Coal Ministry has been monitoring the coal stock situation twice a week. The ministry has assured that they are making efforts to send 1.6 metric tonnes of coal a day in the next three days and will try to reach 1.7 MT a day.
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