Power crisis looms in India with only days remaining for coal stocks

Labourers eat lunch at a coal loading site in the village of Godhar in Jharia (AP)

An energy crisis is looming over India as coal supplies grow perilously low, adding to the challenges faced by Asia’s third-largest economy over the pandemic.

Supplies across the majority of coal-fired power plants in India have dwindled to just days’ worth of stock.