{"id":295360,"date":"2019-10-07T12:37:17","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T07:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=295360"},"modified":"2019-10-07T12:37:17","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T07:07:17","slug":"apgenco-refutes-naidu-charges-says-buying-coal-from-sccl-as-per-2014-pact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/apgenco-refutes-naidu-charges-says-buying-coal-from-sccl-as-per-2014-pact\/","title":{"rendered":"APGENCO refutes Naidu charges, says buying coal from SCCL as per 2014 pact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VIJAYAWADA: The Energy department has refuted the allegations of Leader of the Opposition N Chandrababu Naidu that the State is purchasing coal at a higher cost from Singareni Collieries Company Ltd (SCCL) when it is available at a much lower rate in Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd (MCL). <\/p>\n<p>The officials said that the purchase from SCCL is being done as per the agreement made in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Saturday, APGENCO managing director B Sreedhar explained that the State was procuring coal from SCCL since 2014-15 itself and entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in 2016-17 for procurement of 50 lakh Metric Tonnes (MT) as the supply from MCL was less.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that the APGENCO also agreed to pay 20 per cent in addition to the notified price to SCCL as per the MoU. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VIJAYAWADA: The Energy department has refuted the allegations of Leader of the Opposition N Chandrababu Naidu that the State is purchasing coal at a higher cost from Singareni Collieries Company Ltd (SCCL) when it is available at a much lower rate in Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd (MCL). The officials said that the purchase from SCCL is being done as per the agreement made in 2014. In a statement on Saturday, APGENCO managing director B Sreedhar explained that the State was procuring coal from SCCL since 2014-15 itself and entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in 2016-17 for procurement of 50 [&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":[210,130,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295360","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=295360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}