{"id":390193,"date":"2020-12-18T11:46:46","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T06:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=390193"},"modified":"2020-12-18T11:46:46","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T06:16:46","slug":"govt-to-rationalise-taxes-and-freight-on-coal-to-make-second-round-of-auctions-attractive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/govt-to-rationalise-taxes-and-freight-on-coal-to-make-second-round-of-auctions-attractive\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt to rationalise taxes and freight on coal to make second round of auctions attractive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government would rationalise the slew of taxes on the coal to make prices competitive against imported coal. \u201cThis should be done keeping in view the government\u2019s import substitution targets and make the second round of coal blocks auction more attractive by enabling prices of commercial coal to be competitive in the open market,\u201d said M. Nagaraju, additional secretary, ministry of coal.<\/p>\n<p>The second round of auction is likely to take place in January. The number of blocks to be given for auction has not been decided as yet because the ministry is conducting stage -1 trial with the blocks, Nagaraju said adding that more researched coal blocks would offer for the second round of auction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government would rationalise the slew of taxes on the coal to make prices competitive against imported coal. \u201cThis should be done keeping in view the government\u2019s import substitution targets and make the second round of coal blocks auction more attractive by enabling prices of commercial coal to be competitive in the open market,\u201d said M. Nagaraju, additional secretary, ministry of coal. The second round of auction is likely to take place in January. The number of blocks to be given for auction has not been decided as yet because the ministry is conducting stage -1 trial with the blocks, [&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":[198,130,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390193","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=390193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}