- Power plant going all the coal, yet the stomach is empty
- Supply exceeds capacity, fly ash content also increased
- Coal allocated in e-auction
- possibility of black marketing
- 1 December 2,27,200 MT
- 2 Jan 3,17,500 MT
Nagpur. The stomach of power plants has become very big in the last few days. Whatever coal is being given to them is falling short. The power of the coal companies is coming out only in giving coal to the power plants. On the other hand, small units are dying due to lack of coal. This crisis has arisen due to lack of coordination. In fact, production of WCL has increased by 17 per cent and dispatch has also increased by 34 per cent. Coal has been supplied to the coal companies more than 100 percent. Even after this, WCL has cut coal supply to industries.
How has the demand for coal suddenly increased so much in the power plant? There is no one to ask this. Coal companies are giving coal and taking power plants. Due to this, coal companies have also lost hundreds of crores of rupees.
1,200 Rs. price per ton
Coal companies supply goods to the power plant at special prices. This is much less than the market rate. The price of coal for the power plant is fixed at Rs 1,200 per tonne, while coal is currently being sold in the market at Rs 7,500-8,500 per tonne. Despite this, the coal companies are giving coal to the power plant. Experts say that the power plants are deliberately taking more coal than the fixed quota.
Due to this, all the parties are facing heavy losses. No one is there to see where the coal is going. According to the experts, the coal of the power plant is being sold openly in the market. With coal for Rs 1,200, many power plants are selling coal in the open market i.e. to industries at a price of Rs 7,500 to 8,000. This is a very deep conspiracy. By crying out for electricity, the power plants have started doing illegal business of coal.
Market premium increased
Industries get coal from WCL at roughly Rs 3,600-3,700 per tonne but due to shortage the premium has increased to Rs 7,500-8,500. The announcement of cut in coal supply has set the market on fire and is said to have increased by Rs 1,000-1,500 per tonne. There is also information about some mines reaching up to Rs 9,400 in the coal market. That is, small industries have to pay a heavy price for coal. In such a situation, it is expected that industrial goods are sure to increase further in the coming days. The general public will have to face inflation again.
Only artificial shortcuts, plenty of production
Entrepreneurs say that there is no shortage of coal with the coal companies. Wakoli itself is sending 30-32 racks of goods daily. In this, coal is being given to NTPC along with Maharashtra, Gujarat, Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh. 22 rakes are being sent to them. WECOLI and SECL are working to harass the industries by cutting coal just for the sake of show. 30 rakes were dispatched on 7-8 February, which were sent to the power plant only.
ash rises despite washery
The funny thing is that 30 percent of the ash used to come out from the power plant before the washery came. So the government decided to install washeries so that the ash scale could be brought down to 20 per cent. For this, crores of rupees are also being paid to washeries and coal is being washed. Regrettably, ever since coal is going to the washery, the percentage of ash coming out of the power plant has increased to 50 percent. Experts are asking the question whether coal is being washed in the washery or not. If it is getting washed away, how did the percentage of ash increase instead of decreasing?