{"id":351727,"date":"2020-05-18T09:58:48","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T04:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=351727"},"modified":"2020-05-18T10:03:56","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T04:33:56","slug":"coal-reforms-much-needed-but-statutory-implementation-hurdles-remain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/coal-reforms-much-needed-but-statutory-implementation-hurdles-remain\/","title":{"rendered":"Coal reforms much needed, but statutory implementation hurdles remain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman launched a series of structural reforms across many vital sectors for the economy on Saturday, including coal and non-coal minerals, as part of the fourth tranche of the government\u2019s economic package to fight the Covid-19 induced slowdown. <\/p>\n<p>Among the key sectoral announcements, approval for commercial mining of coal on revenue share basis and with no eligibility conditions; Rs 50,000 crore investment for augmenting infrastructure related to coal evacuation; and an overall thrust on expanding domestic production and thereby reducing imports underlines the government\u2019s mission of becoming a self-reliant country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman launched a series of structural reforms across many vital sectors for the economy on Saturday, including coal and non-coal minerals, as part of the fourth tranche of the government\u2019s economic package to fight the Covid-19 induced slowdown. Among the key sectoral announcements, approval for commercial mining of coal on revenue share basis and with no eligibility conditions; Rs 50,000 crore investment for augmenting infrastructure related to coal evacuation; and an overall thrust on expanding domestic production and thereby reducing imports underlines the government\u2019s mission of becoming a self-reliant country.<\/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":[135,170,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-351727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-coal-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351727","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=351727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}