{"id":282749,"date":"2019-07-17T06:30:48","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T06:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=282749"},"modified":"2019-07-17T06:30:48","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T06:30:48","slug":"no-plan-to-completely-ban-petrol-diesel-vehicles-dharmendra-pradhan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/no-plan-to-completely-ban-petrol-diesel-vehicles-dharmendra-pradhan\/","title":{"rendered":"No plan to completely ban petrol, diesel vehicles: Dharmendra Pradhan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The government has no plans to ban petrol and diesel vehicles in the near future but will continue to push for greater use of electric vehicles with a view to cut oil imports and save the environment, Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Conventional energy sources of coal and oil constitute more than 80% of India&#8217;s energy basket and the demand for energy will continue to grow as the country&#8217;s economy expands further.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;EV is a priority but the incremental requirement of fuel will have to be met through a combination of BS-VI grade petrol and diesel, CNG and biofuels alongside EV,&#8221; he told reporters on sidelines of an industry event here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The government has no plans to ban petrol and diesel vehicles in the near future but will continue to push for greater use of electric vehicles with a view to cut oil imports and save the environment, Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said on Tuesday. Conventional energy sources of coal and oil constitute more than 80% of India&#8217;s energy basket and the demand for energy will continue to grow as the country&#8217;s economy expands further. &#8220;EV is a priority but the incremental requirement of fuel will have to be met through a combination of BS-VI grade petrol and diesel, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282749","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}