{"id":495850,"date":"2022-06-03T09:50:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T04:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=495850"},"modified":"2022-06-03T11:40:38","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T06:10:38","slug":"decline-in-coal-imports-in-fy22-due-to-less-buying-by-power-sector-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/decline-in-coal-imports-in-fy22-due-to-less-buying-by-power-sector-govt\/","title":{"rendered":"Decline in coal imports in FY22 due to less buying by power sector: Govt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government on Thursday said the drop in coal imports in FY&#8217;22 was mainly on account of the power sector&#8217;s inbound shipments declining.<\/p>\n<p>Coal imports that had touched 248 million tonnes (MT) in FY&#8217;20 dropped continuously during the next two financial years to 215 MT in 2020-21 and 209 MT in 2021-22.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The decline in coal import during 2021-22 is largely due to decrease in import by Power Sector which came down from 45 MT in 2020-21 to 27 MT in 2021-22, decline of almost 40 per cent,&#8221; the coal ministry said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The decline is more steep if we compare coal imports by power sector in 2021-22 to pre-Covid year of 2019-20 when such import was 69 MT,&#8221; the ministry said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government on Thursday said the drop in coal imports in FY&#8217;22 was mainly on account of the power sector&#8217;s inbound shipments declining. Coal imports that had touched 248 million tonnes (MT) in FY&#8217;20 dropped continuously during the next two financial years to 215 MT in 2020-21 and 209 MT in 2021-22. &#8220;The decline in coal import during 2021-22 is largely due to decrease in import by Power Sector which came down from 45 MT in 2020-21 to 27 MT in 2021-22, decline of almost 40 per cent,&#8221; the coal ministry said in a statement. &#8220;The decline is more steep [&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":[135,170,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-495850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-coal-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495850","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=495850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}