… much of it at the price of hard labour.
The man responsible for maintaining India’s power supply says he wants the country’s coal production to double within the next five years.
Piyush Goyal, Minister of State with Independent Charge for Power, Coal and New & Renewable Energy, says India needs to dig twice as much coal as it does today if it is to meet its soaring energy demand. By 2019, it is expected to be consuming two trillion units of electricity annually, with one unit equalling one kilowatt hour. Describing coal as “an essential input for power”, Goyal said: “I see Coal India production doubling in the next five years. It makes about 500 million tonnes hopefully this year. We [will] do a billion tonnes in 2019.” — Alex Kirby, Climate News Network, 7 November 2014
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