{"id":272995,"date":"2019-05-06T05:15:21","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T05:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=272995"},"modified":"2019-05-06T05:15:49","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T05:15:49","slug":"indias-oil-import-dependence-jumps-to-multi-year-high-of-84-in-2018-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indias-oil-import-dependence-jumps-to-multi-year-high-of-84-in-2018-19\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s oil import dependence jumps to multi-year high of 84% in 2018-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi may have set a target to cut India&#8217;s oil import dependence by 10 per cent but the country&#8217;s reliance on foreign oil for meeting its energy needs has jumped to a multi-year high of nearly 84 per cent, latest government data showed. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the &#8216;Urja Sangam&#8217; conference in March 2015, the Prime Minister had said that India needs to bring down its oil import dependence from 77 per cent in 2013-14 to 67 per cent by 2022 when India will celebrate its 75th year of independence. <\/p>\n<p>Further, the dependence can be cut to half by 2030, he had said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi may have set a target to cut India&#8217;s oil import dependence by 10 per cent but the country&#8217;s reliance on foreign oil for meeting its energy needs has jumped to a multi-year high of nearly 84 per cent, latest government data showed. Speaking at the &#8216;Urja Sangam&#8217; conference in March 2015, the Prime Minister had said that India needs to bring down its oil import dependence from 77 per cent in 2013-14 to 67 per cent by 2022 when India will celebrate its 75th year of independence. Further, the dependence can be cut to half by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272995","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}