The shortage of coal at thermal plants will not cause any power crisis during this festival season as 20 million tonne of coal has already been imported, Alok Kumar told reporters on Thursday.
In the past year, around this time, coal shortages at thermal plants caused a power crisis in the country. A slew of measures were taken by the Centre in 2021 to manage the crisis and scale up supplies.
In this case (during festival season), there will be no power crisis due to a shortage of coal. On the sidelines of the conference ‘INSIGHT2022’ on green mobility, Kumar told reporters that we have already imported 20 million tonnes of coal so far (this fiscal year) and have already used 15 million tonnes.
In the last week of September 2022, the festival season will begin in North India with Navratri.
In response to the question of whether India would import more coal, he said that coal would be imported whenever necessary
