Seeing the shortage of railway racks for the coal supply, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has directed officials to use road transport for the supply. The state government has asked the staff of the power corporations to put in extra hours of work to maintain supply.
India, the world's second largest producer, importer and consumer of coal, produced 777.2 million tonnes of the fuel during the year ended March 2022 and burnt over a billion tonnes.