Hyderabad: Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday to stop auctioning of four coal blocks of Singareni Collieries Company Ltd as proposed by the Union Coal Ministry.

CM KCR stated that the Singareni Collieries Company is producing 65 million tonnes of coal every year and playing a key role in catering to the needs of thermal power plants in Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka, and Tamil Nadu.

After bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh, the maximum demand for power in Telangana was 5,661 MW in 2014 and by March 2021, it went up to 13,688 MWs and it is essential to supply coal uninterruptedly for the generation of thermal power.