{"id":199002,"date":"2022-08-06T18:41:04","date_gmt":"2022-08-06T13:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=199002"},"modified":"2022-08-06T18:41:04","modified_gmt":"2022-08-06T13:11:04","slug":"parliamentary-panel-suggests-phasing-out-of-coal-imports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/parliamentary-panel-suggests-phasing-out-of-coal-imports\/","title":{"rendered":"Parliamentary panel suggests phasing out of coal imports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201cParliamentary panel suggests phasing out of coal imports\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>Livemint <\/b>on<b> 6th August 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Energy in its report <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">has suggested the Government has to ensure optimum utilization of locally-produced coal through effective collaboration so that coal imports can be phased out over time.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What has been the trend in coal imports to India?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Ministry of Power and Ministry of Coal have taken efforts that led to a 56% drop in coal imports for blending in FY21.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, higher international prices hit imported coal-based power plants. This led to increased demand for domestic coal and consequently reduced domestic coal stocks at power plants.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This forced the government to float tenders for coal imports.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What can be done to reduce coal imports?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Ministry of Power and Ministry of Coal should make concerted efforts for optimum utilization of domestic coal reserves.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For instance, the quality of indigenous coal can be enhanced and the design of boilers at power plants can be modified to enable them to run on domestic coal.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moreover, the central government can persuade state governments to resolve issues that lead to delays in the operationalization of coal blocks.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cParliamentary panel suggests phasing out of coal imports\u201d published in Livemint on 6th August 2022. What is the News? The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Energy in its report has suggested the Government has to ensure optimum utilization of locally-produced coal through effective collaboration so that coal imports&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/parliamentary-panel-suggests-phasing-out-of-coal-imports\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Parliamentary panel suggests phasing out of coal imports<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,3127,9],"tags":[10501],"class_list":["post-199002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-economy","category-public","tag-live-mint","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700785554,"cached_date":1704897360},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}