Coal: Strikes and shortages

The worst of the coal crisis may be over, and the country may be able to avoid the power crisis that had seemed imminent as coal stocks with power stations ran down to critically low levels. This is because Coal India, which supplies the bulk of the coal that feeds power stations, has managed to ramp up supplies from 0.6 million tonnes a day to nearly a million tonnes; the usual level is 0.9 million tonnes. 

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