The Central Coalfields Limited (CCL) informed on Saturday that it had more than six million tons of coal stacks available for power generation. The Chairman and Managing Director of CCL, PM Prasad said that they are aiming to provide 1.85 lakh tones of coal each day to the states facing a power crisis.
Prasad said, “Central Coalfields Limited has more than 6 million tonnes of coal stocks, including mines and siding and we have set a target for transporting 1.85 lakhs tonnes per day to the power plants linked in Punjab, Haryana, UP, Bihar, and Jharkhand.”
The CCL has a total of seven linked power plants in the North including Punjab and Haryana, National Thermal Power Corporation plants in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, Tenughat in Jharkhand, etc.
Prasad further said, “On an average, a total of 1.85 lakh tonnes of coal were dispatched in the last 29 days. During the last six days, we successfully reached 2 lakh.”
He then said that the aim was to increase the supply to states with power crises by transporting 2.20 lakh tones of coal per day in May.