India to face huge coal shortage by 2021-22

摘要

The Government has admitted that the country will face a huge shortfall of 269 million tonne of coal by 2021-22 as the coal producing entities have failed to keep pace with the demand as well as economic growth. "In the last 8-10 years, the economy grew at a much faster pace compared to coal production even as Coal India Ltd registered a growth of 7-8 per cent. We are trying to adopt different technologies which are more efficient in coal usage to meet the demand," the Coal Minister, Mr Sriprakash Jaiswal, said in the Lok Sabha.