The committee of secretaries, led by the prime minister’s principal secretary Pulok Chatterji, is understood to have recommended that state-run Coal India should step up supplies and face penalties if it fails to provide 80% of coal allocated to a power plant. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had set up the committee last month after leading industrialists, including Ratan Tata and Anil Ambani, sought his intervention to help the power sector.