{"id":356088,"date":"2020-06-08T11:37:49","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T06:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=356088"},"modified":"2020-06-08T11:37:49","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T06:07:49","slug":"government-to-invest-rs-1-lakh-crore-to-ramp-up-coal-production-pralhad-joshi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/government-to-invest-rs-1-lakh-crore-to-ramp-up-coal-production-pralhad-joshi\/","title":{"rendered":"Government to invest Rs 1 lakh crore to ramp up coal production: Pralhad Joshi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nagpur: Union minister Pralhad Joshi on Saturday announced that the Centre would invest more than Rs one lakh crore in the next three to four years to increase the country&#8217;s coal production and to augment facilities for its off-take and transportation. He said steps were being taken to reduce the import of coal.<\/p>\n<p>He was speaking at the virtual inauguration of Western Coal Field&#8217;s (WCL) one underground mine in Adasa-Nagpur in Maharashtra and two underground mines in Sharda and Dhankasa in Madhya Pradesh with a total capital expenditure of Rs 849 crore.<\/p>\n<p>Joshi said that 75 to 80 per cent of the country&#8217;s electricity is generated using coal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nagpur: Union minister Pralhad Joshi on Saturday announced that the Centre would invest more than Rs one lakh crore in the next three to four years to increase the country&#8217;s coal production and to augment facilities for its off-take and transportation. He said steps were being taken to reduce the import of coal. He was speaking at the virtual inauguration of Western Coal Field&#8217;s (WCL) one underground mine in Adasa-Nagpur in Maharashtra and two underground mines in Sharda and Dhankasa in Madhya Pradesh with a total capital expenditure of Rs 849 crore. Joshi said that 75 to 80 per cent [&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":[194,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356088","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=356088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}