Against a backdrop of widening demand-supply gap, India's coal shortage may soar to 200 million tonnes (MT) by 2017 as against 142 MT by 2012,Planning Commission has said.By the terminal year of the 12th Five-Year Plan (2012-17 ),the nation is likely to face coal deficit of about 200 MT, an official with the Planning Commission said. Coal demand for the terminal year of the next plan (2016-17) is projected at 1,000 MT, against a production of 800 MT. The demand-supply gap in the last year of the present plan (2007-12) has been assessed at 142 MT with availability of only 554 MT against the requirement of 696 MT.
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