Maharashtra :Major power crisis as no railway rakes to carry coal

Maharashtra is suffering from a major power crisis as
the Railway Ministry were not able to make sufficient rakes to carry coal.

According to Vishwas Pathak, Director of Maharashtra State Electricity Board holding company, the present power shortfall in the state is 2,000 MW.

"We require 32 railway rakes daily to carry coal from the mines to Maharashtra. We are getting only 21 rakes", Pathak said.

He said that the government would not wait for the railway rakes any more. "We will fetch coal by road transport if the rakes are not available", he said.Maharashtra gets coal from the mines in Jharkhand.
Pathak said that Maharashtra was facing power shortage because of shortfall in the raw material (coal). "We have the capacity to produce power, equal to the installed capacity but we can't do it in the absence of raw material", Pathak said.