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"Coal based power generation witnessed a growth of 11.2% in October, 2018 and 6.3% in the month of November, 2018 over the corresponding months last year. RANCHI: Jharkhand has been reeling under power crisis since Monday after Tenughat Thermal Power Station (TTPS) in Lalpania was forced to shut one of its units due to coal crisis.Load shedding continued all over the state with Ranchi facing interrupted power supply in most of the localities. The minister also shared figures of coal supplied to the captive power plants in the last three years which has been 80%, 66% and 68% of the Annual Contracted Quantity for the year 2015-16, 16-17 and 17-18 respectively.He explained that the shortfall in supply to captive power plants is mainly due to unavailability of rail rakes which is being worked out by incorporating road transport. During the period April to November 2018 the growth has been 5.5% over the same period in last financial year and this has affected the coal supply to other sectors including captive power plants," Singh said in his reply.Despite the increase in demand for coal due to rise in power demand and increased generation by most of the thermal power plants, TTPS is unable to get adequate coal from CCL in the wake of its outstanding dues. Sources in the coal ministry said that thermal power stations are the first priority and accordingly it is being made available.Singh in his reply to question in Rajya Sabha said that in terms of the Fuel Supply Agreement (FSA) for non-regulated sector including captive power plants, the percentage of supplies are not fixed.However, there are provisions for mutually enforceable penal clauses for delivery/lifting below a certain level..