The Ministry of Coal (MoC) has made yet another revision to the thermal coal supply targets for the coal companies in the country to the power sector for 2010-11. According to Ministry sources, a total of 388 million tonnes (MT) is now expected to be delivered from indigenous sources. Of this target, a share of around 335 MT is expected to be supplied by the coal major, Coal India Limited (CIL), from the mines of its non-coking coal-producing subsidiaries-- Central Coalfields Limited (CCL), Eastern Coalfields Limited (ECL), Western Coalfields Limited (WCL), South Eastern Coalfields Limited (SECL), Northern Coalfields Limited (NCL), Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL), to the power sector. Supply from the mines of Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) has been estimated as 31 MT, while the captive mines are likely to add around 22 MT to coal availability.
In light of the above estimates, the power sector is still likely to experience an immense shortfall in coal supplies, of the order of 52 MT, in view of the 440 MT of projected coal demand for the 2010-11 fiscal. In order to bridge this projected demand-supply gap, the coal ministry expects power utilities to import at least 35 MT of coal, in addition to the 12 MT of coal that is expected to be required for meeting the fuel requirements of upcoming power stations designed to run on imported coal.
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