Hit by short supply, coal fails to dazzle sector – 30 December 2011, Hindustan Times

For the coal sector, the year 2011 started with a bang amid rosy announcements to augment ‘black diamond’ production by removing all bottlenecks, but it ended with a whimper. Against a widening 142 MT demand-supply gap and a huge over 12,000 MW power capacity addition plans, warring ministries, specially Coal and MoEF, remaining at loggerheads throughout the year over contentious issue of “go” and “no go” mining zones gave much fodder to media.