{"id":340983,"date":"2020-03-09T11:21:17","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T05:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=340983"},"modified":"2020-03-09T11:48:18","modified_gmt":"2020-03-09T06:18:18","slug":"will-not-stop-coal-based-power-plants-immediately-without-a-plan-rk-singh-at-et-gbs-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/will-not-stop-coal-based-power-plants-immediately-without-a-plan-rk-singh-at-et-gbs-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Will not stop coal-based power plants immediately without a plan: RK Singh at ET GBS 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Power and renewable energy minister R K Singh said the country needs coal-based plants for now and he is not in favour of shutting them down immediately. He also said that the much-awaited tariff policy could soon be finalised with home minister Amit Shah-led group of ministers agreeing to most of the recommendations at its first meeting on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you tell me to shut down coal based-plants tomorrow, I will not do it because it is important for me to raise standards of our people,&#8221; Singh said on Saturday at The Economic Times Global Business Summit. His statement comes on the back of Chief Justice of India SA Bobde&#8217;s remark that all thermal power plants in the country should be shut down to check air pollution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Power and renewable energy minister R K Singh said the country needs coal-based plants for now and he is not in favour of shutting them down immediately. He also said that the much-awaited tariff policy could soon be finalised with home minister Amit Shah-led group of ministers agreeing to most of the recommendations at its first meeting on Friday. &#8220;If you tell me to shut down coal based-plants tomorrow, I will not do it because it is important for me to raise standards of our people,&#8221; Singh said on Saturday at The Economic Times Global Business Summit. His statement comes [&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":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340983","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=340983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}