Coal accounts for 75% of energy generated in India, with govt not decommissioning any existing capacity & in process of adding more. Renewable energy also too expensive at the moment.
The driest August in more than a century has resulted in power generation surging to a record 162.7 billion kilowatt hours (units), a Reuters analysis showed.
The world's largest coal mining company will end the fiscal year Friday with an output of 703.4 million tonnes, it said, 13% higher than the 622.6 million tonnes produced the last year.
Reports come amid pressure on India to join Just Transition Energy Partnership, an agreement to fund accelerated transition from coal. India has so far resisted proposition.
In first 2 months of 2022-23, several power plants ran out of coal due to delays in transportation. As a result, Indian Railways had to cancel passenger trains to make way for freight trains.
Electricity producers have complained to govt about increasing instances of impurities in coal. Coal laced with rubble can damage power plant equipment, causing supply delays.
Coal India said it was ramping up production to add around 40 million tonnes to the stock to achieve a desirable stock level of 70 million tonnes by year-end.
The world’s top coal miner, which employs about 259,000 people, wants the 1 million shots for staff and their family members. Just a quarter of the workforce inoculated so far.
Peter Manuel's ‘Cassette Culture’ showed the booming Bhakti music during the '80s and '90s when Anoop Jalota, Gulshan Kumar achieved success by singing the sanitised Bhajans.
Economists say there are weaknesses in India’s GDP data. But statisticians claim the accusations are based on flawed understanding, saying while GDP has problems, the economists are looking in the wrong places.
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