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Despite having large reserves of coal, why does India import millions of tonnes of coal?

1. It is the policy of India to save its own coal reserves for future, and import it from other countries for the present use.

2. Most of the power plants in India are coal-based and they are not able to get sufficient supplies of coal from within the country.

3. Steel companies need large quantity of cooking coal which has to be imported.

Which of the statement(s) given above is/are correct?

A)  Only 1 

B)  2 and 3   

C)  1 and 3           

D)  All of these