Amid deepening coal shortage crisis, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, urging the Prime Minister’s Office to intervene in providing adequate coal and gas for the power plants that supply electricity to the capital Delhi.
The people of Delhi may face power crisis.
Chief Minister Kejriwal on Saturday said that the people of the capital may face power crisis and his government is taking steps to deal with the situation. He said that he has written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to intervene to ensure proper arrangement of coal and gas in the power plants supplying electricity to Delhi.
Chief Minister Kejriwal tweeted and said-
Expressing concern over the coal crisis, Kejriwal tweeted on Saturday and said, “Delhi may face power crisis. I am personally monitoring the situation closely. We are trying our best to avoid it. Meanwhile, I have written a letter to Hon’ble Prime Minister seeking his personal intervention.
In a letter to PM Modi, Kejriwal said.
Delhi is facing coal shortage since August. The letter said that I would like to draw your attention to the situation of coal shortage which is continuing from August/September and is going to be three months now. Major central generation plants that supply electricity to Delhi are affected.
Meanwhile, Delhi’s electricity distribution company Tata Power has informed its customers by sending a message on the phone and urged them to use power judiciously from Saturday afternoon onwards, Tata Power Delhi Distribution Limited (DDL), a branch of Tata Power. Which primarily operates in North-West Delhi, has sent SMS to its customers.
Tata Power DDL said – Please use electricity judiciously.
The SMS sent on Saturday said, “Due to limited availability of coal at the generating plants in North India, the power supply situation between 2 pm and 6 pm is at a critical level. Please use electricity judiciously. Be a responsible citizen. Sorry for the inconvenience – Tata Power-DDL.
Earlier last week, Energy Minister R.K. Singh had acknowledged the shortage of coal in thermal power plants in the country and termed it as “beyond normalcy”. However, later he had also said that the demand for electricity would subside in the second fortnight of October and the supply of coal to the plants would also improve.
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