{"id":364260,"date":"2020-07-23T11:19:29","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T05:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=364260"},"modified":"2020-07-23T11:19:29","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T05:49:29","slug":"eyeing-china-india-plans-solar-power-park-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/eyeing-china-india-plans-solar-power-park-in-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Eyeing China, India plans solar power park in Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: India plans to set up a solar power park in Sri Lanka as part of a concerted strategy to project its presence in the Indian Ocean region, even as China aims to co-opt countries into its \u2018Belt and Road\u2019 initiative, said two people aware of the development.<\/p>\n<p>By leveraging the country\u2019 solar expertise, India\u2019s largest power generation utility NTPC Ltd plans to set up this project in the island nation under the aegis of International Solar Alliance (ISA).<\/p>\n<p>This comes in the backdrop of an increasing presence of China in the Indian Ocean region, which India considers its sphere of influence. Also, an aircraft carrier battle group led by USS Nimitz is conducting joint naval exercises in the area at a time of growing hostilities between India and China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: India plans to set up a solar power park in Sri Lanka as part of a concerted strategy to project its presence in the Indian Ocean region, even as China aims to co-opt countries into its \u2018Belt and Road\u2019 initiative, said two people aware of the development. By leveraging the country\u2019 solar expertise, India\u2019s largest power generation utility NTPC Ltd plans to set up this project in the island nation under the aegis of International Solar Alliance (ISA). This comes in the backdrop of an increasing presence of China in the Indian Ocean region, which India considers its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-364260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-power-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364260","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}