{"id":356793,"date":"2020-06-11T11:43:55","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T06:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=356793"},"modified":"2020-06-11T11:43:55","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T06:13:55","slug":"coal-india-exploring-avenues-for-import-substitution-of-coal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/coal-india-exploring-avenues-for-import-substitution-of-coal\/","title":{"rendered":"Coal India exploring avenues for import substitution of coal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KOLKATA: Coal IndiaNSE 0.07 % Ltd (CILNSE 4.59 %) has requested government\u2019s consideration for lowering railway freights for transporting domestic coal for import substitution, it said in a statement on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>It is one of the many efforts of the coal behemoth to boost sales amid mounting concern over fall in coal sales, due to Covid-19 led demand slump.<\/p>\n<p>CIL is primarily tapping domestic coal-based power plants and non-power sector consumers who are importing coal. They imported around 150 million tonnes in 2019-20. CIL is planning to substitute their supplies with domestic coal which would help the coal major step up sales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOLKATA: Coal IndiaNSE 0.07 % Ltd (CILNSE 4.59 %) has requested government\u2019s consideration for lowering railway freights for transporting domestic coal for import substitution, it said in a statement on Wednesday. It is one of the many efforts of the coal behemoth to boost sales amid mounting concern over fall in coal sales, due to Covid-19 led demand slump. CIL is primarily tapping domestic coal-based power plants and non-power sector consumers who are importing coal. They imported around 150 million tonnes in 2019-20. CIL is planning to substitute their supplies with domestic coal which would help the coal major step [&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-356793","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\/356793","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=356793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}