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Don’t expect your electricity problems to be solved in a hurry. With the ministry of power indicating that the country would face a shortfall of 238 million tonnes (MT) of coal in the 12th five year plan period (2012-2017), power woes will continue in the coming days too, and also trip the efforts to achieve 9 per cent GDP.

Coal-fired plants form 55 per cent of the country’s installed capacity of power generation.