India cancels hundreds of passenger trains to move extra coal

India cancels hundreds of passenger trains to move extra coal –

As India scrambles to overcome its worst power crisis in years, the government-owned coal mining and refining corporation Coal India, which accounts for 80 percent of country’s coal output, increased production by 27.2 percent in April, the federal coal ministry said. Coal accounts for nearly 75 percent of India’s power generation and power plants account for more than three-fourths of the more than one billion tons of annual coal consumption. According to the government officials, the production increase has forced the cancelation […]

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