The government on Thursday launched a portal for transparency and better coordination among stakeholders, including Coal India Ltd, Indian Railways, power utilities and, ministries of coal and power, for coal supplies to power plants.
Union Ministers R K Singh and Pralhad Joshi launched the portal, namely 'PRAKASH', which stands for 'Power Rail Koyla Availability through Supply Harmony'.
This is an important step in ensuring adequate availability optimum utilisation of coal at thermal power plants.
On this occasion, Joshi said this portal will help us ensure that supply harmony is assured from the coal ministry.
He also said that this year after rainy season, coal stocks are higher at 17 million tonne as compared with over 11 million tonne last year due to work done by the ministry in this direction.
He also said the coal production has increased 165 million tonne in past five years.
Singh said, "The portal will help us plan things better and it would lead to optimum utilisation of resources (fuel, rakes, railways)."
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