{"id":263099,"date":"2019-03-08T06:18:23","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T06:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=263099"},"modified":"2019-03-08T06:18:23","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T06:18:23","slug":"ahead-of-lok-sabha-polls-cabinet-offers-relief-to-power-sugar-garment-sectors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ahead-of-lok-sabha-polls-cabinet-offers-relief-to-power-sugar-garment-sectors\/","title":{"rendered":"Ahead of Lok Sabha polls, Cabinet offers relief to power, sugar garment sectors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even as it is soon to be lame-duck with Parliament elections around the corner, the Narendra Modi government on Thursday took a raft of decisions to give a boost to various sectors of the economy, including thermal and hydro power, sugar, aviation and metro rail.<\/p>\n<p>The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) approved a host of recommendations of a group of ministers (GoM) aimed at addressing the woes of stressed power projects \u2014 the latest official count of such projects is 34, with a total capacity of 40.13 giga watts (GW) and banks\u2019 exposure of Rs 1.75 lakh crore. Further, to help the states meet their non-solar renewable power purchase obligations (RPO), the Cabinet declared all hydro power projects (HPOs) as renewable energy sources, extending it to plants above 25 MW capacity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even as it is soon to be lame-duck with Parliament elections around the corner, the Narendra Modi government on Thursday took a raft of decisions to give a boost to various sectors of the economy, including thermal and hydro power, sugar, aviation and metro rail. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) approved a host of recommendations of a group of ministers (GoM) aimed at addressing the woes of stressed power projects \u2014 the latest official count of such projects is 34, with a total capacity of 40.13 giga watts (GW) and banks\u2019 exposure of Rs 1.75 lakh crore. Further, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,240,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}