{"id":413160,"date":"2021-05-03T09:30:33","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T04:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=413160"},"modified":"2021-05-03T10:24:15","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T04:54:15","slug":"pandemic-impacts-coal-offtake-from-coal-indias-mines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/pandemic-impacts-coal-offtake-from-coal-indias-mines\/","title":{"rendered":"Pandemic impacts coal offtake from Coal India\u2019s mines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Offtake from Coal India Ltd (CIL) fell more than a fifth in April as the second wave of the pandemic left several contract workers battling the deadly infection. <\/p>\n<p>The fuel offtake from India\u2019s largest coal miner fell to 54.13 million tonnes (mt) last month as against a target of 68.89 mt. <\/p>\n<p>This dip in offtake has led the coal ministry to closely monitor the situation to ensure availability of the fossil fuel at thermal plants across the country given coal is the mainstay of India\u2019s power generation mix. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is true that some of the contractual workers involved in offtake were covid affected,&#8221; a Coal India official said in an emailed response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Offtake from Coal India Ltd (CIL) fell more than a fifth in April as the second wave of the pandemic left several contract workers battling the deadly infection. The fuel offtake from India\u2019s largest coal miner fell to 54.13 million tonnes (mt) last month as against a target of 68.89 mt. This dip in offtake has led the coal ministry to closely monitor the situation to ensure availability of the fossil fuel at thermal plants across the country given coal is the mainstay of India\u2019s power generation mix. \u201cIt is true that some of the contractual workers involved in offtake [&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":[190,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413160","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\/413160","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=413160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}