{"id":491689,"date":"2022-05-13T11:37:29","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T06:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=491689"},"modified":"2022-05-13T13:13:27","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T07:43:27","slug":"jain-coal-scarcity-in-country-created-for-somebodys-benefit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/jain-coal-scarcity-in-country-created-for-somebodys-benefit\/","title":{"rendered":"Jain: Coal scarcity in country created for somebody\u2019s benefit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A scarcity of coal in the country was \u201ccreated for somebody\u2019s benefit,\u201d Delhi Power Minister Satyendar Jain said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA huge scarcity of coal was created in the country for somebody\u2019s benefit\u2026 Coal was not taken from our mines. Then, the Delhi government and other governments made noise about the shortage of coal in power plants. First, they said Jain is lying. Now, the power plants have been directed to use 10% of imported coal. The impact of this is that the average power cost will increase by 30%. Why is this? Do we not have coal mines?\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Jain was speaking at a stakeholder consultation for Delhi\u2019s new solar policy. The Dialogue and Development Commission (DDC) signed a partnership last week with RMI India to develop a new solar policy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A scarcity of coal in the country was \u201ccreated for somebody\u2019s benefit,\u201d Delhi Power Minister Satyendar Jain said Thursday. \u201cA huge scarcity of coal was created in the country for somebody\u2019s benefit\u2026 Coal was not taken from our mines. Then, the Delhi government and other governments made noise about the shortage of coal in power plants. First, they said Jain is lying. Now, the power plants have been directed to use 10% of imported coal. The impact of this is that the average power cost will increase by 30%. Why is this? Do we not have coal mines?\u201d he said. [&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-491689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491689","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=491689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}