{"id":369952,"date":"2020-08-26T10:46:07","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T05:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=369952"},"modified":"2020-08-26T10:46:20","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T05:16:20","slug":"govt-plans-deep-cut-in-thermal-coal-imports-in-coming-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/govt-plans-deep-cut-in-thermal-coal-imports-in-coming-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt plans deep cut in thermal coal imports in coming years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI : India plans to significantly reduce its thermal coal imports in &#8220;the next few years&#8221; to save foreign exchange and create jobs through the development of existing and new coal blocks, a senior official in the federal coal ministry said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Coal is among the top five commodities imported by India, the world&#8217;s largest consumer, importer and producer of the fuel after China.<\/p>\n<p>India spent \u20b91.58 trillion ($21.28 billion) on importing 247 million tonnes of coal, including 197 million tonnes of thermal grade, in the fiscal year to March 2020, M. Nagaraju, a joint secretary in the coal ministry, told a seminar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI : India plans to significantly reduce its thermal coal imports in &#8220;the next few years&#8221; to save foreign exchange and create jobs through the development of existing and new coal blocks, a senior official in the federal coal ministry said on Tuesday. Coal is among the top five commodities imported by India, the world&#8217;s largest consumer, importer and producer of the fuel after China. India spent \u20b91.58 trillion ($21.28 billion) on importing 247 million tonnes of coal, including 197 million tonnes of thermal grade, in the fiscal year to March 2020, M. Nagaraju, a joint secretary in the [&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":[190,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-369952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369952","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=369952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}