Centre wrote to states in February to stockpile coal

The coal shortage at power plants are of their own making since state utilities and private power plants ignored repeated warnings from the coal and power ministries to begin building up inventories, even as the total generation capacity that was switched off due to low fuel stocks shrank 45% from 11 GW (gigawatts) to 6 GW on improved supplies from Coal India.

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