{"id":285666,"date":"2019-08-02T06:21:17","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T06:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=285666"},"modified":"2019-08-02T06:21:17","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T06:21:17","slug":"cil-to-spend-rs-700-crore-for-procuring-40-rakes-to-carry-coal-to-power-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/cil-to-spend-rs-700-crore-for-procuring-40-rakes-to-carry-coal-to-power-plants\/","title":{"rendered":"CIL to spend Rs 700 crore for procuring 40 rakes to carry coal to power plants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, Coal India Limited (CIL) has decided to procure rail wagons under General Purpose Wagon Investment Scheme at an estimated cost of Rs 700 crore to transport more coal to power plants. The CIL-owned rakes dedicated to transport coal will help us in pushing higher volumes of coal to the power sector, the mining major said in a statement on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Maharatna PSU\u2019s board has given the green signal to procure 40 rakes at a total expenditure of nearly Rs 700 crore. One rake comprises 59 wagons. According to a rough estimate, one rake can move 1.4 million tonne of coal per annum,\u201d the company said. However, the power sector would have to wait for about two years before the CIL\u2019s own rakes begin rolling to support their supply, officials indicated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, Coal India Limited (CIL) has decided to procure rail wagons under General Purpose Wagon Investment Scheme at an estimated cost of Rs 700 crore to transport more coal to power plants. The CIL-owned rakes dedicated to transport coal will help us in pushing higher volumes of coal to the power sector, the mining major said in a statement on Thursday. \u201cThe Maharatna PSU\u2019s board has given the green signal to procure 40 rakes at a total expenditure of nearly Rs 700 crore. One rake comprises 59 wagons. According to a rough estimate, one rake can move [&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":[198,130,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285666","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=285666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}