{"id":393392,"date":"2021-01-05T09:52:59","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T04:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=393392"},"modified":"2021-01-05T10:09:40","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T04:39:40","slug":"dharmendra-pradhan-urges-coal-and-mines-minister-to-expedite-capacity-expansion-of-smelter-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/dharmendra-pradhan-urges-coal-and-mines-minister-to-expedite-capacity-expansion-of-smelter-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"Dharmendra Pradhan urges coal and mines minister to expedite capacity expansion of smelter plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Union petroleum and steel minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Monday urged his colleague Prahlad Joshi, who holds the portfolio of coal, mines and parliamentary affairs, to expedite capacity expansion of Nalco&#8217;s Aluminium smelter plant at Angul in Odisha. Pradhan, in his letter, requested Joshi to take necessary steps for increasing Nalco smelter plant&#8217;s capacity to 1 MTPA from existing 0.46 MTPA.<\/p>\n<p>The National Aluminium Company NSE -1.28 % is undertaking a brownfield expansion project for their aluminium smelter plant at Angul, which include construction of a 1400 MW feeder Captive Power Plant (CPP).<\/p>\n<p>The cost of this project, which is presently at the land acquisition stage, is estimated to be around Rs 22,000 crore, Pradhan said in the letter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union petroleum and steel minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Monday urged his colleague Prahlad Joshi, who holds the portfolio of coal, mines and parliamentary affairs, to expedite capacity expansion of Nalco&#8217;s Aluminium smelter plant at Angul in Odisha. Pradhan, in his letter, requested Joshi to take necessary steps for increasing Nalco smelter plant&#8217;s capacity to 1 MTPA from existing 0.46 MTPA. The National Aluminium Company NSE -1.28 % is undertaking a brownfield expansion project for their aluminium smelter plant at Angul, which include construction of a 1400 MW feeder Captive Power Plant (CPP). The cost of this project, which is presently [&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":[194,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393392","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=393392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}