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Coal Ministry taking measures to boost coal supplies

01 Jan 2015 Evaluate

Amid rising concerns over the declining coal supplies, Coal Ministry has notified that it is working in tandem with the Railway Ministry for expeditious laying of three critical rail lines in three states include Jharkhand, Odisha and Chhattisgarh to transport the dry fuel. The country is witnessing with short supply of dry fuel with as many as 41 thermal power plants facing significant coal shortages and state run miner Coal India has been asked to ramp up production and supply of coal.

The Ministry further notified that the focus of the ministry to increase coal production to the maximum extent possible by facilitating environment and forest clearances expeditiously and pursuing with state government for assistance in land acquisition.  On the issue of poor quality coal supply to power plants, Coal Ministry stressed that to resolve the disputes regarding quality of coal, it has agreed to provide an option to test at third party laboratories with test data being collected at unloading points. Moreover, in order to clamp down coal pilferage, it has proposed to establish a national coal dispatching centre and Radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag for all coal movements.

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. At present, Indian coal demand is around 35 percent higher than domestic supply. 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. Presently, the Coal India (CIL) is the only producer of domestic coal accounting for around 80% of the domestic production. Amid rising domestic demand, annual target of the coal production for Coal India has been increased to 630.25 million tonnes for the current fiscal. Further, the government had also set a target of one billion tonnes of coal production for CIL by 2019 from the current levels of 500 million tones.

 

 

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