₹40,000 crore claim arrives without the calculation
The Congress government’s charge against Yadadri is loud. The Union’s coal records are quieter—and more inconvenient.
The government has announced the burden; the calculation remains unpublished.
The Congress government in Telangana says Yadadri’s non-pithead location and G9 coal requirement could impose an additional ₹40,000 crore burden on the state. The calculation, however, has not been published. No transport rate, coal volume, time period or underlying finance note is available in the records reviewed.
The documents do show that Yadadri was planned around Singareni coal. Its environmental-clearance record specifies G9 and above domestic coal from SCCL, transported by rail, alongside an imported-coal option. A 2023 Union coal document calls it a non-pithead plant 270 km from the allocated mine and records a 14 MTPA G9 linkage from SCCL. A 2019 Lok Sabha answer also lists the 4,000 MW project under SCCL coal linkages.
That does not prove the BRS government got everything right. It does show that “BRS ignored coal availability” is a political charge, not an established finding. The Congress government has produced the headline figure first and left the arithmetic somewhere behind it. Telangana is still waiting for the bill.