{"id":294796,"date":"2019-10-03T11:38:19","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T06:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=294796"},"modified":"2019-10-03T13:03:11","modified_gmt":"2019-10-03T07:33:11","slug":"flooding-at-large-coal-india-mine-to-halt-output-for-a-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/flooding-at-large-coal-india-mine-to-halt-output-for-a-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Flooding at large Coal India mine to halt output for a month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI\/BHUBANESWAR: Flooding at one of Coal India Ltd&#8217;s largest open-pit mines will halt production there for at least a month, a senior company official told Reuters on Wednesday, in a setback for a country trying to reduce its dependence on coal imports.<\/p>\n<p>The flooding at the Dipka mine, which produces more than 30 million tonnes a year of thermal coal and accounts for some 5% of Coal India&#8217;s overall output, could leave some power plants in eastern and central India scrambling for fuel.<\/p>\n<p>The mine supplies coal to multiple utilities including NTPC Ltd&#8217;s Sipat plant in the eastern state of Chhattisgarh, where the mine is located, and state-run utilities in western Maharashtra state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI\/BHUBANESWAR: Flooding at one of Coal India Ltd&#8217;s largest open-pit mines will halt production there for at least a month, a senior company official told Reuters on Wednesday, in a setback for a country trying to reduce its dependence on coal imports. The flooding at the Dipka mine, which produces more than 30 million tonnes a year of thermal coal and accounts for some 5% of Coal India&#8217;s overall output, could leave some power plants in eastern and central India scrambling for fuel. The mine supplies coal to multiple utilities including NTPC Ltd&#8217;s Sipat plant in the eastern state [&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":[194,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294796","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=294796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}