Coal Minister Piyush Goyal on Tuesday assured that power plants will get adequate coal supplies by the end of the month or early October as the government is taking urgent measures to resolve the supply issues. About a dozen power plants have been facing erratic coal supplies for a month or so, and the minister blamed the states and power plant operators for the crisis.
“We are taking urgent measures to step up coal supply to power stations. Coal supplies to power stations across the country will be normalised by the end of September or early October,” Goyal told the Indo-American Chamber of Commerce after the chamber's president, N Srinivasan, flagged the issue of the depleting stock of coal at power stations.