Amid concerns over the increasing fuel shortage for domestic power producers, the government has advised power producers to import 54 million tonnes (MT) of coal in the current fiscal to meet the shortfall.
Power Minister Piyush Goyal asserted that due to shortage of domestic coal, it cannot be possible to meet 100 percent requirement of power producer (including NTPC) from domestic coal production. Power utilities including NTPC are currently importing coal to bridge the shortfall in availability of domestic coal. During the April-June period of 2014, NTPC, the country's largest power producer, imported 3.6 MT of dry fuel as against annual target of 16.6 MT.
Coal shortage in the country has become a concern for Indian power sector as coal-fired plants account for 59% of India's installed electricity capacity. India, despite being world's fifth largest in terms of reserves and the third-largest producer of coal, has failed to keep pace with increasing domestic demand. Indian domestic coal demand is around 35 percent higher than domestic supply. India’s coal imports during last fiscal increased to 168.44 MT as compared to 145.78 MT in FY13.
Coal India (CIL), the only producer of coal in the country, is struggling to meet domestic coal requirements. CIL production fell 4.21 percent short of its production target to 462.53 million tonnes in FY14 amid concerns like shutdown of mining activities in Talcher Coalfields in Odisha. The government has set coal production target at 507 million tonnes for CIL for FY15.
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