{"id":468600,"date":"2022-02-16T12:17:40","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T06:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=468600"},"modified":"2022-02-16T12:17:40","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T06:47:40","slug":"non-power-coal-users-claim-shortage-government-denies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/non-power-coal-users-claim-shortage-government-denies\/","title":{"rendered":"Non-power coal users claim shortage; government denies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India&#8217;s aluminium smelters, textile mills, sponge iron and fertiliser-makers say they face a coal shortage as power generators take the bulk of supplies.<br \/>\nTop miner Coal India Ltd, which accounts for more than 80% of India&#8217;s production of the fuel, and the coal ministry, deny there is a problem.<br \/>\nIn a letter to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi dated February 7, eight industry associations including the Aluminium Association of India and Fertilizer Association of India urged the government to ensure a &#8220;justified ratio of coal allocation between power sector and industries&#8221;.<br \/>\nThey do not give precise figures on the extent of the shortage, but industry officials said the government&#8217;s policy of prioritising coal shipments to power generators rather than the non-power sector in response to high prices and reduced imports had caused panic and uncertainty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India&#8217;s aluminium smelters, textile mills, sponge iron and fertiliser-makers say they face a coal shortage as power generators take the bulk of supplies. Top miner Coal India Ltd, which accounts for more than 80% of India&#8217;s production of the fuel, and the coal ministry, deny there is a problem. In a letter to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi dated February 7, eight industry associations including the Aluminium Association of India and Fertilizer Association of India urged the government to ensure a &#8220;justified ratio of coal allocation between power sector and industries&#8221;. They do not give precise figures on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,246,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-468600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468600","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}