{"id":509618,"date":"2022-07-28T11:31:25","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T06:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=509618"},"modified":"2022-07-28T11:31:25","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T06:01:25","slug":"power-engineers-oppose-coal-imports-as-minister-says-no-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/power-engineers-oppose-coal-imports-as-minister-says-no-shortage\/","title":{"rendered":"Power engineers oppose coal imports as minister says no shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The All India Power Engineers Federation has questioned compulsory coal imports by generation companies and sought PM Narendra Modi\u2019s intervention for withdrawal of the power ministry\u2019s directive for 10% blending with imported coal, even as fuel inventories at 54 power plants remain critical.<br \/>\nIn a letter to the PM, federation chief Shailendra Dube has pointed out coal minister Prahlad Joshi\u2019s statement in the Rajya Sabha that \u201cthere is no coal shortage in the country\u201d and says compulsory blending of domestic coal with costlier imported fuel will raise consumer tariff.<br \/>\nReplying to a question on \u201cshortage of coal production\u201d by BJP\u2019s Rajya Sabha member C M Ramesh, Joshi had on Monday informed the House that there was no shortage and production in the current financial year was up 31% till June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The All India Power Engineers Federation has questioned compulsory coal imports by generation companies and sought PM Narendra Modi\u2019s intervention for withdrawal of the power ministry\u2019s directive for 10% blending with imported coal, even as fuel inventories at 54 power plants remain critical. In a letter to the PM, federation chief Shailendra Dube has pointed out coal minister Prahlad Joshi\u2019s statement in the Rajya Sabha that \u201cthere is no coal shortage in the country\u201d and says compulsory blending of domestic coal with costlier imported fuel will raise consumer tariff. Replying to a question on \u201cshortage of coal production\u201d [&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-509618","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\/509618","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=509618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}