The supply of thermal coal in India has been declared as an essential service and officials are to maintain its critical dispatch during the country’s lockdown period, Union Minister of Coal, Mines and Parliamentary Affairs Pralhad Joshi said Saturday. Receive daily email alerts, subscriber notes & personalize your experience. Register Now India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced a 21-day lockdown on the country from March 25 to combat the coronavirus pandemic. Measures have been put in place to monitor the coal production and dispatches to power plants so that energy and other critical sectors remain unaffected amid the current coronavirus situation, according to the ministry. Coal India Limited, or CIL, an Indian state-owned coal miner and the largest coal producing company in the […]