Power supply to improve before Diwali: Shinde
15 Oct 2011
The government today said the grim power situation in the country would start looking up before Diwali, with generation companies having been told to pass some of their surplus fuel to feedstock-starved units.
"Diwali would be celebrated with light... the power situation would improve in the next 4-5 days," power minister Sushilkumar Shinde told reporters in New Delhi.
He said the power ministry had initiated steps to resolve the power crisis in the country and was in constant discussions with the ministries of coal and railways regarding the matter.
The power ministry had also resorted to diversion of surplus coal from some projects to fuel-deficient plants.
"We have transferred some coal from one unit or plant to another, wherever required," the minister further added.
"There are problems of supply of coal and we are in touch with the coal ministry," Shinde said, adding, "Floods in Orissa have flooded the mines, thereby coal could not be supplied to the power plants."
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