{"id":488156,"date":"2022-04-30T12:25:13","date_gmt":"2022-04-30T06:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=488156"},"modified":"2022-04-30T12:25:13","modified_gmt":"2022-04-30T06:55:13","slug":"passenger-trains-in-india-make-way-for-coal-to-stop-power-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/passenger-trains-in-india-make-way-for-coal-to-stop-power-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Passenger trains in India make way for coal to stop power crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India has canceled some passenger trains to allow for faster movement of coal carriages as the nation scrambles to replenish depleting inventories at power plants in a bid to avoid a full-blown power crisis.<\/p>\n<p>A scorching summer is driving demand for coal, which helps generate about 70% of the country\u2019s electricity. Several parts of India are facing long hours of blackouts, while some industries are cutting output due to the fossil fuel\u2019s shortage, threatening the economy\u2019s revival from the pandemic-induced slump. The risk of a further spike in inflation is rising at a time when the government is struggling to rein in high energy prices fueled by Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The measure is temporary and passenger services will be restored as soon as the situation normalizes, said Gaurav Krishna Bansal, an executive director at Indian Railways, one of Asia\u2019s largest networks. The state-run operator is trying to minimize the time it takes to move coal to power plants, he said by phone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India has canceled some passenger trains to allow for faster movement of coal carriages as the nation scrambles to replenish depleting inventories at power plants in a bid to avoid a full-blown power crisis. A scorching summer is driving demand for coal, which helps generate about 70% of the country\u2019s electricity. Several parts of India are facing long hours of blackouts, while some industries are cutting output due to the fossil fuel\u2019s shortage, threatening the economy\u2019s revival from the pandemic-induced slump. The risk of a further spike in inflation is rising at a time when the government is struggling to [&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":[141,130,236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-488156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-power-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488156","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=488156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}