Coal Minister writes to CMs, Chief Secretaries of States to ensure coal prices are not hiked

The Government has written to the Chief Ministers and Chief Secretaries of States to guarantee that ember prices are not increased, Union Minister for Coal and Mines G. Kishan Reddy told reporters connected the sidelines of the motorboat of the seventh tranche of the auction for captious and strategical minerals and the National DMF Summit connected Monday (March 23, 2026).

“We (the government) person taken proactive measures,” helium stated, elaborating, “The [Coal] caput has spoken to Chief Secretaries of States, and I excessively person written to Chief Ministers of states that determination is nary shortage of ember successful the country; thus, determination should beryllium nary summation successful prices of coal.”

Mr. Reddy was responding to queries astir the summation successful ember prices globally amidst the West Asia crisis.

The Union Minister, specifically noting determination being nary shortage of ember successful the country, said the onus is connected State Governments to guarantee the prices are kept successful check. “If prices [of coal] increase, the onus is connected State Governments to guarantee the prices are kept successful check,” helium stated.

Essential to enactment that the Union Ministry of Coal had informed connected Saturday (March 21, 2026) that the state had successfully produced 1 cardinal tonnes of coal for the 2nd twelvemonth successful a row.

Addressing queries connected production, Mr. Reddy stated, “In my assessment, we person 80 days of ember stocks. In fact, we [the country] are abbreviated of abstraction for storing the ember we person produced. Moreover, we cannot store it for agelong since it is combustible, and determination could beryllium a diminution successful its quality.” He summed up by saying, “We are producing much than the country’s requirements.”