Dues not a concern but we've to think of financial stability: CIL chairman

Pramod Agrawal says the company has been able to increase their average daily production to 1.45 MTs, during the past week

India’s thermal power stations have been witnessing a coal shortage with the Union government even asking generators to go in for imports. In an interview with Jyoti Mukul, Pramod Agrawal, chairman, Coal India (CIL), says logistics issues due to the rains have impeded loading but daily dispatches will improve to 1.8 million tonnes (mt) in the next few days. Edited excerpts
 
How has Coal India ramped up the supply of coal to thermal power plants in the country over the past week?
 
Our urgency in stepping up supplies to coal-fired plants can be evidenced from the fact that