{"id":293722,"date":"2019-09-25T17:12:02","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T11:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=293722"},"modified":"2019-09-25T17:19:31","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T11:49:31","slug":"coal-india-workers-strike-hit-production-by-about-56-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/coal-india-workers-strike-hit-production-by-about-56-official\/","title":{"rendered":"Coal India workers strike hit production by about 56%: Official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Protests by workers at Coal India Ltd on Tuesday hit output by about 56%, a senior company official told Reuters. The workers&#8217; strike over implementation of reforms including allowing 100% foreign direct investment (FDI) in coal mining &#8211; which India approved last month to attract global miners to India &#8211; paralysed operations.<\/p>\n<p>The company, which accounts for over four-fifths of India&#8217;s coal output and employs about 300,000 people, registered a 30% attendance due to the strike. India depends on coal-based utilities for three-quarters of its electricity generation.<\/p>\n<p>Coal India produced a total of 466,000 tonnes of coal on Tuesday, which compared to an business-as-usual production estimate of 1.05 million tonnes, the official said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protests by workers at Coal India Ltd on Tuesday hit output by about 56%, a senior company official told Reuters. The workers&#8217; strike over implementation of reforms including allowing 100% foreign direct investment (FDI) in coal mining &#8211; which India approved last month to attract global miners to India &#8211; paralysed operations. The company, which accounts for over four-fifths of India&#8217;s coal output and employs about 300,000 people, registered a 30% attendance due to the strike. India depends on coal-based utilities for three-quarters of its electricity generation. Coal India produced a total of 466,000 tonnes of coal on Tuesday, which [&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":[131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293722","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=293722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}