{"id":369538,"date":"2020-08-24T09:50:05","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T04:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=369538"},"modified":"2020-08-24T11:30:32","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T06:00:32","slug":"breather-likely-on-pollution-control-gears-for-eligible-coal-based-power-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/breather-likely-on-pollution-control-gears-for-eligible-coal-based-power-plants\/","title":{"rendered":"Breather likely on pollution control gears for eligible coal-based power plants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The environment ministry will grant relaxations to eligible coal-based power plants in the implementation of pollution control gears in view of \u2018genuine\u2019 concerns over Covid-19 pandemic and India\u2019s endeavour to bar Chinese components,\u2019 environment secretary RP Gupta told ET.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are genuine demands but we will need to consider how much relaxation to give, the eligibility criteria for the relaxation, whether there should be different levels of relaxation\u2014all of this needs to be discussed after proper analysis and consultation, before a decision can be made,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The power ministry last week wrote to the environment ministry seeking a two-year extension in current deadline for about 330 units with over 100GW capacity saying it \u201cwas earlier fixed considering normal circumstances,\u201d sources said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The environment ministry will grant relaxations to eligible coal-based power plants in the implementation of pollution control gears in view of \u2018genuine\u2019 concerns over Covid-19 pandemic and India\u2019s endeavour to bar Chinese components,\u2019 environment secretary RP Gupta told ET. \u201cThere are genuine demands but we will need to consider how much relaxation to give, the eligibility criteria for the relaxation, whether there should be different levels of relaxation\u2014all of this needs to be discussed after proper analysis and consultation, before a decision can be made,\u201d he said. The power ministry last week wrote to the environment ministry seeking [&hellip;]<\/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":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-369538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369538","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=369538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}