More than 63 gigawatts (GW) of thermal power capacity, accounting for over 28 per cent of India’s roughly 224 GW of coal-fired capacity under operation, is facing critically low coal stocks at the plant end averaging at just four days

Forty-five Indian power plants face critically low coal stocks as monsoon rains disrupt supplies and rising electricity demand boosts reliance on coal generation.

Forty-five Indian power plants operate with critically low coal inventories now. Monsoon rains disrupt supplies and electricity demand rises amid hotter weather. Coal stocks…