{"id":637913,"date":"2024-03-06T09:57:22","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T04:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=637913"},"modified":"2024-03-06T11:49:11","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T06:19:11","slug":"govt-extends-mandate-for-utilities-to-import-6-of-coal-needs-until-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/govt-extends-mandate-for-utilities-to-import-6-of-coal-needs-until-june\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt extends mandate for utilities to import 6% of coal needs until June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian government has extended the mandate for the country&#8217;s power producers to import 6% of their coal requirements until June, despite adequate domestic availability, amid transport constraints and higher electricity demand, a power ministry note said on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>India last year had asked utilities to import 6% of their coal requirements until March due to an unprecedented surge in power and coal demand. <\/p>\n<p>Despite record production by state-run Coal India, which accounts for about 80% of India&#8217;s domestic production of the fuel, constraints with the country&#8217;s railway network necessitated imports, the note said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian government has extended the mandate for the country&#8217;s power producers to import 6% of their coal requirements until June, despite adequate domestic availability, amid transport constraints and higher electricity demand, a power ministry note said on Tuesday. India last year had asked utilities to import 6% of their coal requirements until March due to an unprecedented surge in power and coal demand. Despite record production by state-run Coal India, which accounts for about 80% of India&#8217;s domestic production of the fuel, constraints with the country&#8217;s railway network necessitated imports, the note said.<\/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-637913","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\/637913","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=637913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}