{"id":273014,"date":"2019-05-06T05:21:35","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T05:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=273014"},"modified":"2019-05-06T05:21:35","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T05:21:35","slug":"indias-oil-import-dependence-jumps-to-84-per-cent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indias-oil-import-dependence-jumps-to-84-per-cent\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s oil import dependence jumps to 84 per cent"},"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 relianceNSE -0.63 % 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. <\/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 relianceNSE -0.63 % 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 [&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":[130,191,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273014","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=273014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}