Singareni Collieries Company Ltd (SCCL) has decided to supply over 81%, 57 million tonnes (MT) out of its targeted 70 MT, of coal production during the current fiscal (2022-23) to thermal power generation plants in Telangana and other States, mostly in the Southern region, to meet their energy needs.
The country is passing through a phase of energy crisis with many States resorting to load shedding to different categories of consumers to manage the demand-supply gap. Telangana, which is the only State in the country that has been supplying uninterrupted power to all categories of consumers including 24×7 supply to agriculture sector, has also been forced to resort to load shedding recently for the first time after December 2018, irrespective of the reasons.
The management of SCCL has recently written to the Coal Ministry assuring it of supplying 57 MT of coal to thermal power plants which have coal linkage with it (Singareni). Accordingly, the company has plans to supply 4.8 MT coal to thermal power plants this month. Till April 17, about 2.67 MT coal was supplied.
