The authorities has directed the facility technology corporations (GENCOS) to buy rakes for captive utilization, a transfer which is able to ensure smooth provides of coal during the monsoon season.
Each 12 months during the monsoon season, the manufacturing of home coal additionally falls, Power Minister R Okay Singh instructed PTI.
When requested if the federal government is making rake preparations anticipating manufacturing and supply points during the approaching wet season, he replied within the affirmative.
“That (rakes) is one other downside,” Singh mentioned including the Coal Ministry has been saying that there are areas the place there’s dry gasoline however transportation just isn’t occurring to the extent of availability.
He cited the scarcity of rakes apart from congestion on some routes as the primary causes for this downside.
There are actions which the Railways want to take to cut back the congestion on these traces in order that extra coal may be evacuated from these locations. In some areas, the Coal Ministry may have to up the manufacturing the place sufficient rakes can be found, the Minister mentioned.
Without sharing any particulars, he additional mentioned “the Indian Railways is shopping for extra rakes. I’ve additionally requested the GENCOS to put money into rakes.
“You can personal rakes and also you save on transport value and that pays for itself in about 9-10 years and the rake itself runs for about 25-30 years. NTPC already owns rakes, they’re going to enhance their rakes. I’ve requested all state GENCOS to personal rakes to cut back load on railways.”
The Minister has additionally mentioned that the federal government is gearing up to enhance the inventory of coal at energy crops to 40 million tonnes (MT) during the monsoon season.
At current, there are reserves of round 22.9 MT on the energy crops.
(Only the headline and movie of this report might have been reworked by the Business Standard employees; the remainder of the content material is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
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