The power ministry's failure to achieve coal-based capacity generation target is posing a bottleneck for coal companies to plan out their productions, the Planning Commission has observed.
In a recent meeting of the coal ministry's Standing Linkage Committee on Power, representatives of the Commission said the coal companies were in an uncomfortable position with regard to setting production goals as power utilities had failed to achieve capacity generation targets for which they need coal.
“...In the past the capacity addition target set by the Ministry of Power has never been achieved and because of the mismatch between capacity addition programme of MoP and the actual capacity addition, coal companies are not comfortable with planning coal production,” Planning Commission members said.
Stating that there are constraints and gestation periods involved in development of mines, the Commission stressed the need for importing coal to feed domestic power utilities.
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