Chandigarh, October 11
As residents of Punjab continued to reel under unscheduled power cuts, the state thermal plants finally received 12 rakes of coal today.
Six rakes each reached Nabha Power Limited plant at Rajpura and Talwandi Sabo Power Limited plant at Mansa after Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi urged the Centre to immediately release coal for the state power plants.
As many as five units of thermal power plants, including two units at the state-run Ropar plant and one at Lehra Mohabbat, are not able to generate power due to severe coal shortage. Though the state bought 1,500 MW of power today to meet the demand at over Rs 14.46 per unit, power cuts of four to five hours on different categories of consumers were imposed today as well.
