{"id":382305,"date":"2020-11-04T11:36:45","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T06:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=382305"},"modified":"2020-11-04T13:15:44","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T07:45:44","slug":"after-protest-goa-minister-assures-cap-on-coal-imports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/after-protest-goa-minister-assures-cap-on-coal-imports\/","title":{"rendered":"After protest, Goa minister assures cap on coal imports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A day after the night protest in Goa, state Environment Minister Nilesh Cabral on Tuesday promised a \u201ccapping mechanism\u201d for import of coal, with Chief Minister Pramod Sawant expected to provide \u201cdocumentary proof\u201d in the days to come.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the media, Cabral said, \u201cGoa will not be a coal hub.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday midnight, people had come out in huge numbers to keep vigil by railway tracks to ensure coal trains did not cross. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt present, nearly 10 to 12 million tonnes of coal is imported annually. This will not increase and the government will make sure the quantum of coal import does not increase,\u201d Cabral assured. Mormugao Port Trust\u2019s projections for 2030 say they want to import over 50 million tonnes of coal, with the bulk of imports divided between the Adani Group, JSW Group and Vedanta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A day after the night protest in Goa, state Environment Minister Nilesh Cabral on Tuesday promised a \u201ccapping mechanism\u201d for import of coal, with Chief Minister Pramod Sawant expected to provide \u201cdocumentary proof\u201d in the days to come. Speaking to the media, Cabral said, \u201cGoa will not be a coal hub.\u201d On Sunday midnight, people had come out in huge numbers to keep vigil by railway tracks to ensure coal trains did not cross. \u201cAt present, nearly 10 to 12 million tonnes of coal is imported annually. This will not increase and the government will make sure the quantum of [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-382305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382305","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=382305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}