{"id":269267,"date":"2019-04-16T06:51:18","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T06:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=269267"},"modified":"2019-04-16T06:51:18","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T06:51:18","slug":"election-commission-directs-omcs-to-halt-allocation-of-petrol-pumps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/election-commission-directs-omcs-to-halt-allocation-of-petrol-pumps\/","title":{"rendered":"Election Commission directs OMCs to halt allocation of petrol pumps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Election Commission (EC) has asked the three oil marketing companies (OMCs) \u2014 Indian Oil Corporation, Bharat Petroleum Corporation and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation \u2014 to stop allotment of petrol pumps for now. \u201cWe were directed by the EC not to go ahead with further allotment of fuel outlets,\u201d said a senior OMC official.<\/p>\n<p>The OMCs had planned to allot about 41 per cent of the planned 78,493 new fuel retail outlets. They approached the poll panel around mid-March, saying they wanted to give letters of intent to at least 31,800 successful bidders in April and May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Election Commission (EC) has asked the three oil marketing companies (OMCs) \u2014 Indian Oil Corporation, Bharat Petroleum Corporation and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation \u2014 to stop allotment of petrol pumps for now. \u201cWe were directed by the EC not to go ahead with further allotment of fuel outlets,\u201d said a senior OMC official. The OMCs had planned to allot about 41 per cent of the planned 78,493 new fuel retail outlets. They approached the poll panel around mid-March, saying they wanted to give letters of intent to at least 31,800 successful bidders in April and May.<\/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":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269267","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=269267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}