Not possible to meet coal demand till 13 th Five-Year Plan period: Coal India CMD
19 Nov 2012
Coal India chairman and managing director, S Narsingh Rao, today said that it was not possible to meet the complete coal demand from indigenous sources till the 13th Five-Year Plan period. His remarks come even as Coal India production saw 8-9 per cent growth.
''We need to supply coal to additional 90,000 MW capacity over the 306 million tonnes supplied to thermal electricity generation plants currently,'' Rao said at the Fourth Coal Summit 2012.
During the 12th Five-Year Plan, India would face a supply gap of 185 MT and production by the terminal year of 12th Plan was expected to touch 795MT, following an incremental production of 255MT as against the previous Five-Year Plan.
The 11th Five-Year plan saw coal production increase by 110 MT with a gap of 140MT.
''Environmental and technical issues need to be addressed,'' Rao said.
He added, the company would introduce a mechanism for ''internal environmental audit'', which would be treated as important as production and offtake, he added.
