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Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel writes to Centre on serious coal crisis in steel industries

RAIPUR: South Eastern Coalfields Limited (SECL) is supplying only 50 lakh tonnes of coal to steel industries of Chhattisgarh against their demand of 1.50 crore tonnes, creating a gap of 90 lakh tonnes between the demand and supply, said Chhattisgarh chief minister Bhupesh Baghel in a letter to Union minister of coal Pralhad Joshi following a demand from the steel industries of the state.

Expressing concern that the steel manufacturing sector of Chhattisgarh is going to be in a deep crisis of coal, Baghel said that the SECL's decision to stop the supply of coal in the month of August will adversely affect the state’s economy.

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