Power crisis: Centre, states are trying to resolve the situation

The heat is on. In more ways than one. A scorching summer here before time, an uptick in industrial and agricultural activities combined with an acute shortage of coal have India facing its worst power crisis in six years. Over a heated blame-game, the Centre and states are frantically trying to resolve the situation.

Currently, some 59 per cent of the power plants dependent on domestic coal are running low on coal stock, and the total stock in pithead and non-pithead power plants is barely around 31 per cent of the normative stock.

The result? Power cuts in Delhi, Uttarakhand,