The Ministry of Power (MoP) has been monitoring the coal supply situation in the country and has been taking steps to ensure adequate coal supply and coal stocks based on the domestic coal received from Coal India Limited (CIL), Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) and Captive coal mines.
As per the decision taken in the MoP in consultation with State GENCOs, IPPs and Central GENCOs, the domestic coal supply to all GENCOs will be in proportion to the coal received from CIL/SCCL for all the GENCOs and it will not be possible to give more coal other than on proportionate basis to make up any shortfall.
The MoP has issued a circular directing the following: 1) Production in captive coal mines allotted to power plants may be maximized to the limit permitted. 2) It has been reported that a number of power plants are taking much longer time than the prescribed norms in unloading coal from railway rakes, which is affecting the turn-around time. CEA has been asked to monitor the unloading time at power plants and it has been decided that lesser number of rakes would be made available to such power plants where there is slackness in prompt unloading of coal from rakes. 3) A number of generating companies have overdues of coal companies running in several hundred crores of rupees. Therefore, it is necessary that the bills of coal companies are paid in due time.
