NEW DELHI: Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi soliciting for him to direct the Railways to offer rakes for transporting coal to energy vegetation in Delhi-NCR, which can be going through "alarming level" of coal shortage.
The nationwide transporter, alternatively, on Tuesday said Delhi need not fear as good enough coal is being supplied to the facility vegetation.
In his letter to Modi, the Delhi leader minister said with emerging temperatures and extending energy call for in Delhi, coal inventory place is "very alarming" and needs speedy attention and intervention.
"As informed, this coal shortage is primarily attributable to non-availability of transportation rakes with Indian Railways due to which available coal is not getting transported to the NCR thermal (power) stations," Kejriwal said.
"It is therefore requested to kindly intervene personally and give necessary directions to the Railways for providing rakes/wagons on priority for transportation of coal in order to avoid load shedding or any major grid incidence leading to major blackouts in Delhi," he informed the high minister within the letter.
Responding to Kejriwal's claims, the railways said coal requirement in Dadri, Jhajhar and Badarpur energy vegetation are being adequately met by way of the nationwide transporter.
"In Badarpur as of now, there is a consumption of 1.5 rakes, while we are supplying two-three rakes. In Dadri the consumption is of five rakes, and as of today seven rakes are there with additional rakes in the pipeline. In Jhajhar too there is requirement of around 3.5 rake while railways is supplying four rakes. So, there are adequate rakes," Mohd Jamshed, Member, Traffic of the railways said.
"We had given coal traffic preference even in January, February and March when on demand we had ensured that there are rakes available and if necessary we had even drawn it from other sectors," he said.
Kejriwal said thermal energy stations within the nationwide capital area -- Dadri I & II, Jhajjar and Badarpur -- are going through "acute coal shortage" for the ultimate many days and at this time all of them are operating on day ahead basis as coal inventory is not sufficient for even in the future full era.
He said consistent with norms, this inventory situation is to be maintained for at least 15 days ahead duration.
Jamshed said a committee comprising legit of the railways, energy and coal had been monitoring the location day-to-day, good enough coal is being supplied to energy properties and reserves are being maintained consistent with norms.
Kejriwal said that Delhi is reeling below severe heat wave conditions and height call for has already crossed 6200 MW as on date, and is expected to the touch 7000 MW soon.
The leader minister also wrote to Lt Governor Anil Baijal in quest of his intervention in taking over the topic with the central ministries to resolve this crisis-like situation at the earliest.
Delhi Power Minister Satyendar Jain had ultimate week flagged the problem and said that he had written to Union Coal Minister Piyush Goyal previous this month, soliciting for him to issue important instruction to lend a hand "resolve the crisis".
The Railways said that its coal loading was on the right track.
"Last year we did 555 million tonne which is 22 million tonne more than the previous year. This year we will increase it further. Last year, we used 350 rakes for coal, now its 450 rakes," Jamshed said.
As of May 1 this 12 months, 285 million tonne of coal was loaded, out of which 260 million tonne was for energy vegetation.
According to knowledge provided by way of the Delhi govt, the coal required for energy era in full capacity for in the future is 56,000 MT, but 52,513 MT coal was provided to energy vegetation on Monday.
The nationwide transporter, alternatively, on Tuesday said Delhi need not fear as good enough coal is being supplied to the facility vegetation.
In his letter to Modi, the Delhi leader minister said with emerging temperatures and extending energy call for in Delhi, coal inventory place is "very alarming" and needs speedy attention and intervention.
"As informed, this coal shortage is primarily attributable to non-availability of transportation rakes with Indian Railways due to which available coal is not getting transported to the NCR thermal (power) stations," Kejriwal said.
"It is therefore requested to kindly intervene personally and give necessary directions to the Railways for providing rakes/wagons on priority for transportation of coal in order to avoid load shedding or any major grid incidence leading to major blackouts in Delhi," he informed the high minister within the letter.
Responding to Kejriwal's claims, the railways said coal requirement in Dadri, Jhajhar and Badarpur energy vegetation are being adequately met by way of the nationwide transporter.
"In Badarpur as of now, there is a consumption of 1.5 rakes, while we are supplying two-three rakes. In Dadri the consumption is of five rakes, and as of today seven rakes are there with additional rakes in the pipeline. In Jhajhar too there is requirement of around 3.5 rake while railways is supplying four rakes. So, there are adequate rakes," Mohd Jamshed, Member, Traffic of the railways said.
"We had given coal traffic preference even in January, February and March when on demand we had ensured that there are rakes available and if necessary we had even drawn it from other sectors," he said.
Kejriwal said thermal energy stations within the nationwide capital area -- Dadri I & II, Jhajjar and Badarpur -- are going through "acute coal shortage" for the ultimate many days and at this time all of them are operating on day ahead basis as coal inventory is not sufficient for even in the future full era.
He said consistent with norms, this inventory situation is to be maintained for at least 15 days ahead duration.
Jamshed said a committee comprising legit of the railways, energy and coal had been monitoring the location day-to-day, good enough coal is being supplied to energy properties and reserves are being maintained consistent with norms.
Kejriwal said that Delhi is reeling below severe heat wave conditions and height call for has already crossed 6200 MW as on date, and is expected to the touch 7000 MW soon.
The leader minister also wrote to Lt Governor Anil Baijal in quest of his intervention in taking over the topic with the central ministries to resolve this crisis-like situation at the earliest.
Delhi Power Minister Satyendar Jain had ultimate week flagged the problem and said that he had written to Union Coal Minister Piyush Goyal previous this month, soliciting for him to issue important instruction to lend a hand "resolve the crisis".
The Railways said that its coal loading was on the right track.
"Last year we did 555 million tonne which is 22 million tonne more than the previous year. This year we will increase it further. Last year, we used 350 rakes for coal, now its 450 rakes," Jamshed said.
As of May 1 this 12 months, 285 million tonne of coal was loaded, out of which 260 million tonne was for energy vegetation.
According to knowledge provided by way of the Delhi govt, the coal required for energy era in full capacity for in the future is 56,000 MT, but 52,513 MT coal was provided to energy vegetation on Monday.
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