Hyderabad, Oct. 15 -- Telangana IT and Industries Minister D Sridhar Babu on Thursday, October 15, rejected Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) working president KT Rama Rao's (KTR) allegations about coal supply shortage at Singareni collieries, blaming the previous government for the gap at the Yadadri thermal power plant.

Addressing a press conference, he said the fuel supply agreement to give Yadadri 14 million tonne of G-9 grade coal a year was signed during the BRS rule. It was based on the expectation that Singareni would open new mines.

Singareni produces G-9 coal from only nine mines, he said. Over the past decade, it supplied an average of about 4 million tonne a year of that grade to plants with supply agreements.

The new mines neve...