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Maharashtra seeks Centre's intervention for adequate coal supply [1]

The Maharashtra government has sought the Centre’s intervention to get adequate coal supply from Coal India subsidiaries and Singareni Collieries.

What state-run Maharashtra State Power Generation Company (Mahagenco) gets since November last year is 18 to 20 rakes a day — as against the daily domestic coal requirement of 24 rakes. The deficit from Western Coalfields is affecting the generation of the thermal generation plant with a capacity of 6,480 Mw. Mahagenco is losing daily generation of 1,000 Mw for want of coal.

Publication Date: 
03/03/2012
Sanjay Jog [2]
Business Standard (New Delhi) [3]
Tags:
Coal [4], Power Industry [5], Subsidies [6], Western Coalfields [7], Coal India [8], Singareni Collieries Co [9], Thermal Power Plants [10], Energy [11], Maharashtra [12]
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[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/thermal-power-plants
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