{"id":534483,"date":"2022-11-05T10:30:26","date_gmt":"2022-11-05T05:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=534483"},"modified":"2022-11-05T10:30:26","modified_gmt":"2022-11-05T05:00:26","slug":"india-needs-coal-to-power-growth-produce-gas-finance-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-needs-coal-to-power-growth-produce-gas-finance-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"India needs coal to power growth, produce gas: Finance minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India needs to focus on coal for meeting the \u2018base load\u2019 (minimum level of demand in the power grid) and gasification projects to ensure a smooth energy transition amid high gas prices, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need greater investments also to help in gasification of coal. I invite all of you to energetically participate in the auction processes which have been launched today and keep your options further extended for greater extraction of minerals in India,\u201d she told investors, while launching the largest round of coal block auctions with 141 mines.<\/p>\n<p>During this \u2018Amrit Kaal\u2019, a fast-growing economy like India needs to tap all the basic minerals, she said, pointing out that due to policy consistency and transparent process of the present government, coal imports for the power sector have co-me down by 41%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India needs to focus on coal for meeting the \u2018base load\u2019 (minimum level of demand in the power grid) and gasification projects to ensure a smooth energy transition amid high gas prices, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Thursday. \u201cWe need greater investments also to help in gasification of coal. I invite all of you to energetically participate in the auction processes which have been launched today and keep your options further extended for greater extraction of minerals in India,\u201d she told investors, while launching the largest round of coal block auctions with 141 mines. During this \u2018Amrit [&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-534483","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\/534483","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=534483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}