{"id":320104,"date":"2020-02-18T19:12:27","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T19:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=320104"},"modified":"2020-02-18T19:12:27","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T19:12:27","slug":"india-to-stop-import-of-thermal-coal-from-financial-year-2023-24-pralhad-joshi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/india-to-stop-import-of-thermal-coal-from-financial-year-2023-24-pralhad-joshi\/","title":{"rendered":"India to stop import of thermal coal from Financial Year 2023-24 &#8211; Pralhad Joshi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-306995 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/coal-mine-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"316\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/coal-mine-1.jpg 316w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/coal-mine-1-272x300.jpg 272w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 316px) 100vw, 316px\" \/>India will stop importing thermal coal from Financial Year 2023-24, said Union Minister of Coal and Mines Pralhad Joshi while chairing\u00a0\u201cChintan Shivir\u201d &#8211; a two day brainstorming session. The session was organized to find a way forward for the coal sector &#8211; at Kevadia in Gujarat on 17th and 18th February 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">\u201cThe Shivir has engaged the participants in contemplating and deliberating to think out of the box to overcome various bottlenecks and provide innovative solutions to the Indian coal sector\u201d Pralhad Joshi said while interacting with the media on the sidelines of the Shivir.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Highlighting key takeaways of the Shivir, Union Coal and Mines Minister said that various ways and means were discussed with key stakeholders to achieve 1 billion tonnes (BT) coal production target by Coal India Limited (CIL) by Financial Year 2023-24. The Ministry of Coal will coordinate with Indian Railways and Shipping Ministry and enable CIL, Captive and Commercial Miners evacuate more coal by 2030.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Stressing upon the diversification in the Indian Coal sector, the Minister said that ideas have also been mooted that CIL could think of coming up with the state of the art pithead thermal power plants to transform it into an integrated energy company. It was also proposed that CIL could\u00a0generate 5 GW of solar power by FY 2023-24 and could diversify into coal gasification with a target of 50 Million Tonnes by 2030 enabling a sustainable energy mix for the country. All these ideas will be deliberated, studied and examined for their feasibility\u00a0in detail and based on that, they could be implemented.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The Minister further stressed upon the safety of workers in the Coal mining sector and has urged coal companies to achieve zero mortality rate by FY 2023-24.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">He also announced that the Ministry of Coal will\u00a0introduce a \u201cCoal Minister&#8217;s Award\u201d soon to recognize and appreciate best practices in coal production, productivity, safety, sustainability etc. by the coal companies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India will stop importing thermal coal from Financial Year 2023-24, said Union Minister of Coal and Mines Pralhad Joshi while chairing\u00a0\u201cChintan Shivir\u201d &#8211; a two day brainstorming session. The session was organized to find a way forward for the coal sector &#8211; at Kevadia in Gujarat on 17th and 18th February 2020. \u201cThe Shivir has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":306995,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320105,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320104\/revisions\/320105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/306995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}