{"id":306166,"date":"2019-12-18T12:07:42","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T06:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=306166"},"modified":"2019-12-18T12:18:27","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T06:48:27","slug":"focus-on-output-maximisation-alternate-fuel-to-reduce-import-defence-for-fuel-dharmendra-pradhan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/focus-on-output-maximisation-alternate-fuel-to-reduce-import-defence-for-fuel-dharmendra-pradhan\/","title":{"rendered":"Focus on output maximisation, alternate fuel to reduce import defence for fuel: Dharmendra Pradhan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: India has changed its energy strategy to focus on increasing output and is looking at alternative fuels to reduce dependence on oil imports which is a pressure on the economy, oil minister Dharmendra Pradhan said.<\/p>\n<p>Pradhan reiterated that the country was striving to become a gas-based economy, and was improving gas infrastructure to support this ambition. He said changing geopolitical conditions were creating anxiety and uncertainty and increasing fuel price volatility. This is a challenge for a price-sensitive market like India, he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImport of fuel is a pressure on the economy. Managing volatility of price and dependence on imports is a challenge for India,\u201d Pradhan said at the Times Network\u2019s India Economic Conclave 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: India has changed its energy strategy to focus on increasing output and is looking at alternative fuels to reduce dependence on oil imports which is a pressure on the economy, oil minister Dharmendra Pradhan said. Pradhan reiterated that the country was striving to become a gas-based economy, and was improving gas infrastructure to support this ambition. He said changing geopolitical conditions were creating anxiety and uncertainty and increasing fuel price volatility. This is a challenge for a price-sensitive market like India, he added. \u201cImport of fuel is a pressure on the economy. Managing volatility of price and dependence on [&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":[130,191,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306166","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=306166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}