An engineered power crisis

In the last few weeks, the country has been constantly reminded of its energy “insecurity” in a rude manner. Electricity production has plunged, leaving consumers to suffer long periods of power cuts. Industry too has suffered. A confluence of several immediate factors has led to the present crisis. Rains making coal—the dominant fuel—wet and unusable and labour strikes in a public sector coal company being the immediate causes. A long-term problem that of near-stagnation in domestic coal production over the last few years is the more serious problem.

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