An exclusive India Today investigation has found that Coal India Limited (CIL) wrote to power plants on March 18, 2021, anticipating a power surge and asked them to stockpile coal.
The Rajasthan government, feeling the crunch of the coal crisis, has been fighting hard to maintain demand-supply balance and has written to the Union Coal Secretary Anil Jain to increase the supply of coal from Coal India.
The Centre on Tuesday accused some state governments of imposing rolling power cuts known as load-shedding and not supplying power to consumers; rather, they were profiting by selling electricity to the power exchange by taking advantage of surging prices.