{"id":331845,"date":"2020-01-31T12:19:25","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T06:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=331845"},"modified":"2020-01-31T12:47:56","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T07:17:56","slug":"coal-india-to-clear-backlog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/coal-india-to-clear-backlog\/","title":{"rendered":"Coal India to clear backlog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coal India hopes to clear its supply backlog to some sectors by March, with power plants stocked adequately with the fuel.<\/p>\n<p>The public sector miner in 2017-18 and 2018-19 had diverted coal from the non-regulated sectors such as aluminium, iron and steel and cement to meet the demand of the power plants, creating a backlog.<\/p>\n<p>According to Coal India officials, the arrears to the non-power sector at the start of 2019-20 was around 5,143 rakes. \u201cIt has been brought down to 1,116 and we are hopeful of clearing the rest by the end of the current fiscal,\u201d a Coal India official said. A rake can carry around 3,800 tonnes of coal. Coal India has stepped up production after the monsoon season and has increased the supply to the power sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coal India hopes to clear its supply backlog to some sectors by March, with power plants stocked adequately with the fuel. The public sector miner in 2017-18 and 2018-19 had diverted coal from the non-regulated sectors such as aluminium, iron and steel and cement to meet the demand of the power plants, creating a backlog. According to Coal India officials, the arrears to the non-power sector at the start of 2019-20 was around 5,143 rakes. \u201cIt has been brought down to 1,116 and we are hopeful of clearing the rest by the end of the current fiscal,\u201d a Coal India [&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":[217,130,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331845","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=331845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}