{"id":441542,"date":"2021-10-11T12:04:47","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T06:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=441542"},"modified":"2021-10-11T13:04:49","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T07:34:49","slug":"thermal-plant-worries-enough-coal-stock-fears-of-crisis-misplaced-says-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/thermal-plant-worries-enough-coal-stock-fears-of-crisis-misplaced-says-govt\/","title":{"rendered":"Thermal plant worries: Enough coal stock, fears of crisis misplaced, says govt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Coal Ministry said on Sunday that India has sufficient stocks to meet the demand for coal in thermal power plants, and that fears of a disruption in power supply are \u201centirely misplaced\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Thermal power plants in the country are currently facing a shortage of coal due to a sharp uptick in power demand, restricted supplies due to heavy rainfall in September, low accumulation of stock in April-June, and a sharp increase in the price of imported coal.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry\u2019s statement came in response to an accusation by Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia that the Centre was trying to \u201crun away\u201d from the coal crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Coal Ministry said on Sunday that India has sufficient stocks to meet the demand for coal in thermal power plants, and that fears of a disruption in power supply are \u201centirely misplaced\u201d. Thermal power plants in the country are currently facing a shortage of coal due to a sharp uptick in power demand, restricted supplies due to heavy rainfall in September, low accumulation of stock in April-June, and a sharp increase in the price of imported coal. The ministry\u2019s statement came in response to an accusation by Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia that the Centre was trying to [&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-441542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441542","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=441542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}