{"id":394717,"date":"2021-01-12T11:04:09","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T05:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=394717"},"modified":"2021-01-12T11:57:48","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T06:27:48","slug":"dont-shun-coal-as-of-yet-pralhad-joshi-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/dont-shun-coal-as-of-yet-pralhad-joshi-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t shun coal as of yet: Pralhad Joshi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: India should not crush its energy aspirations in quest to follow the West, coal minister Pralhad Joshi said on Monday adding the country should make maximum use of its coal reserves while shifting to cleaner forms of energy.<\/p>\n<p>Joshi said some groups often irresponsibly argue to shun coal, without assessing its implications.<\/p>\n<p>He said the second tranche of commercial coal mining will begin this month, he said at an event to mark signing of agreements for pilot commercial coal mining blocks and launch of single window clearance portal.<\/p>\n<p>According to the International Energy Agency and the US Energy Information Administration coal will continue to meet most of the world\u2019s increasing energy needs over the next two decades. The demand for coal is projected to increase substantially over the next several decades, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: India should not crush its energy aspirations in quest to follow the West, coal minister Pralhad Joshi said on Monday adding the country should make maximum use of its coal reserves while shifting to cleaner forms of energy. Joshi said some groups often irresponsibly argue to shun coal, without assessing its implications. He said the second tranche of commercial coal mining will begin this month, he said at an event to mark signing of agreements for pilot commercial coal mining blocks and launch of single window clearance portal. According to the International Energy Agency and the US Energy [&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-394717","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\/394717","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=394717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}