Coal supply: PowerMin seeks Goyal’s help

New Delhi: With Coal Ministry rejecting the Power Ministry’s request to provide fuel to 9940 MW plants of companies like Essar Power, GMR and Power, the latter has sought intervention of Coal and Power Minister Piyush Goyal into the matter. A list of “similarly placed projects” of 4095 MW was sent to the coal ministry for supply of coal…Further 5845 MW has coal blocks, but mining is delayed by one-two years…Hence tapering linkages needs to be given for one-two years, but Ministry of Coal has rejected it on the ground that they have coal blocks,” according to an official document.