{"id":502173,"date":"2022-07-01T11:49:33","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T06:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=502173"},"modified":"2022-07-01T11:49:33","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T06:19:33","slug":"award-renewable-energy-project-to-adani-centre-urges-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/award-renewable-energy-project-to-adani-centre-urges-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Award renewable energy project to Adani: Centre urges Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over a fortnight since the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) chairman resigned after stating that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had pressured Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to award a renewable energy project to the Adani Group, the CEB on Thursday clarified that it was done \u201con the request and recommendation of the Government of India\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The clarification, issued by the CEB to the Daily FT newspaper, has been carried verbatim by the Sri Lankan business newspaper: \u201c&#8230;a proposal from the Adhani Green Energy Ltd. (AGEL) on the request and recommendation of the Government of India has been considered by the Government, and has granted the policy clearance of the Government for the Board of investment (BOI) to proceed with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with AGEL (signed on 11 March 2022).\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over a fortnight since the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) chairman resigned after stating that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had pressured Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to award a renewable energy project to the Adani Group, the CEB on Thursday clarified that it was done \u201con the request and recommendation of the Government of India\u201d. The clarification, issued by the CEB to the Daily FT newspaper, has been carried verbatim by the Sri Lankan business newspaper: \u201c&#8230;a proposal from the Adhani Green Energy Ltd. (AGEL) on the request and recommendation of the Government of India has been considered by the Government, [&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":[130,245,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-502173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502173","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=502173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}