{"id":340230,"date":"2020-03-03T12:37:54","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T07:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=340230"},"modified":"2020-03-03T12:37:54","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T07:07:54","slug":"delhis-indraprastha-gas-to-set-up-gas-meter-manufacturing-unit-to-cut-dependence-on-imports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/delhis-indraprastha-gas-to-set-up-gas-meter-manufacturing-unit-to-cut-dependence-on-imports\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi&#8217;s Indraprastha Gas to set up gas meter manufacturing unit to cut dependence on imports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: As city gas distribution network in India expands rapidly, Indraprastha Gas Ltd plans to set up a factory to manufacture gas meters used to bill households and industries for the consumption of the environment-friendly fuel, as it looks to cut reliance on imports from China for the same.<\/p>\n<p>IGL will invest about Rs 100 crore for setting up a unit in the national capital region to manufacture 1 million meters annually, its Managing Director ES Ranganathan said here. The plan is part of the Modi government&#8217;s push towards raising the share of environment-friendly fuel in India&#8217;s energy basket to 15 per cent by 2030 from the current 6.2 per cent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: As city gas distribution network in India expands rapidly, Indraprastha Gas Ltd plans to set up a factory to manufacture gas meters used to bill households and industries for the consumption of the environment-friendly fuel, as it looks to cut reliance on imports from China for the same. IGL will invest about Rs 100 crore for setting up a unit in the national capital region to manufacture 1 million meters annually, its Managing Director ES Ranganathan said here. The plan is part of the Modi government&#8217;s push towards raising the share of environment-friendly fuel in India&#8217;s energy basket [&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":[130,207,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340230","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=340230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}