{"id":343678,"date":"2020-03-27T10:28:20","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T04:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=343678"},"modified":"2020-03-27T10:28:20","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T04:58:20","slug":"despite-lockdown-mining-operations-continue-scaled-down-by-covid-19-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/despite-lockdown-mining-operations-continue-scaled-down-by-covid-19-fears\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite lockdown, mining operations continue, scaled down by COVID-19 fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BHUBANESWAR: While the 21-day lockdown has brought life to a standstill in most parts of the country, mining and transportation of ore continued in Odisha\u2019s mineral belts.<\/p>\n<p>In an order dated March 24 by the state\u2019s Naveen Patnaik government, production, supply and distribution of coal, power, steel and fertiliser, operations of mines \u2014 iron ore, coking coal, thermal coal, limestone, dolomite, manganese and chromite \u2014 as well as running of ferro alloy and pellet plants (which supply raw material to steel plants) were termed \u201cessential services\u201d and exempted from the shutdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BHUBANESWAR: While the 21-day lockdown has brought life to a standstill in most parts of the country, mining and transportation of ore continued in Odisha\u2019s mineral belts. In an order dated March 24 by the state\u2019s Naveen Patnaik government, production, supply and distribution of coal, power, steel and fertiliser, operations of mines \u2014 iron ore, coking coal, thermal coal, limestone, dolomite, manganese and chromite \u2014 as well as running of ferro alloy and pellet plants (which supply raw material to steel plants) were termed \u201cessential services\u201d and exempted from the shutdown.<\/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":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343678","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=343678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}