{"id":522358,"date":"2022-09-16T09:46:17","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T04:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=522358"},"modified":"2022-09-16T10:32:59","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T05:02:59","slug":"govt-working-to-increase-domestic-coking-coal-output-steel-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/govt-working-to-increase-domestic-coking-coal-output-steel-secretary\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt working to increase domestic coking coal output: Steel secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government is working to increase the domestic production of coking coal as the country aims to have a steel making capacity of 300 million tonne by 2030-31, a senior official said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Coking coal is a key input in steel making and the country remains dependent on imports to meet 85 per cent of its coking coal needs.<\/p>\n<p>The government has taken an important decision by removing the duty on coking coal to zero, Steel Secretary Sanjay Kumar Singh said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There have been issues of prices rise in this area (coking coal) but of late, they have come down quite significantly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government is working to increase the domestic production of coking coal as the country aims to have a steel making capacity of 300 million tonne by 2030-31, a senior official said on Thursday. Coking coal is a key input in steel making and the country remains dependent on imports to meet 85 per cent of its coking coal needs. The government has taken an important decision by removing the duty on coking coal to zero, Steel Secretary Sanjay Kumar Singh said. &#8220;There have been issues of prices rise in this area (coking coal) but of late, they have come [&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-522358","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\/522358","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=522358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}