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Union home minister Amit Shah on Tuesday held a meeting with power minister RK Singh, coal minister Pralhad Joshi and railway minister Ashwini Vaishnav amid reports of ongoing coal and power situation across the country, sources said.
Cabinet secretary Rajiv Gauba, CMD of Naveli Lignite Corporation, key concerned officials of the Coal Ministry along with other officials of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) were also present in the meeting.
The meeting was held in the home ministry in which issues of ongoing coal and power situation in the country were learnt to be discussed, an official source said.
The meeting was chaired by the home minister Shah.
The meeting was held in the wake of several states warning of a possible power crisis due to the shortage of coal supply to power plants, officials said. A similar meeting was held in October last year too following the coal crisis in the country.
