New Delhi: City may have to reel under power cuts on Monday if coal shortage continues to hit power plants. Delhi received up to 1,000 MW less power on Sunday leading to load shedding in many areas; but no crisis situation arose due to less demand as it was a holiday.

The Greenpeace fact finding report states that Singrauli is the ninth highest in the Comprehensive Environmental Pollution Index (CEPI) amongst 88 highly polluted industrial blocks in the country.

The environment ministry has told a Group of Ministers (GoM) that the coal ministry’s argument of a possible production shortfall of 39 million tonne is untenable as it has lifted the moratorium from five out of seven coalfields.

A new environment minister and a sympathetic ministry helping company get clearances for projects stuck in the pipeline
Coal India is gearing up for around . 42,000-crore investment in the next few years as its projects, stuck under environment norms, start getting clearances.

This also involves foreign acquisitions, the clearances for which are likely to come in the next few weeks.

Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh has refused to issue forest clearance to the Mahan coal block in the Singrauli field of Madhya Pradesh, meant for the use of Essar and Hindalco power plants. However, this is not the final rejection. Instead, Mr. Ramesh has merely washed his hands of on the issue and passed the buck to a Group of Ministers to take a final decision.

Singrauli will have 3000 MW capacity thermal power project based on super critical technique. This would be the first of its kind in the country.

Seeking to end the intense bitterness, environment minister Jairam Ramesh today walked into coal minister Sriprakash Jaiswal

Electricity production has been given top priority in industrial investment in Madhya Pradesh with an objective to develop the State as power state by the year 2013 so that power could be available sufficiently for farming, industries and domestic use. It would help to get rid of power cuts for ever.