Minister of State for Coal, Power, Renewable Energy and Mines Piyush Goyal has said that no thermal power plant/coal company has approached CIL (Coal India Ltd) for supply of imported coal for 2016-17.
Coal demand in 2016-17 is estimated to be 884.8 million tonnes (MT) against which the supply plan from indigenous sources has been estimated to be 724.7 MT, leaving a demand supply gap of 160 MT to be met through imports by consuming sectors, said Goyal in a reply to the Lok Sabha.
Thanks to increased production by CIL in the last fiscal, coal imports have fallen to 199.8 MT in 2015-16 from 217.7 MT in 2014-15, said the minister.
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