{"id":291462,"date":"2019-09-13T06:14:24","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T06:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=291462"},"modified":"2019-09-13T06:14:24","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T06:14:24","slug":"govt-mulls-merger-of-small-power-firms-with-ntpc-nhpc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/govt-mulls-merger-of-small-power-firms-with-ntpc-nhpc\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt mulls merger of small power firms with NTPC, NHPC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Finance and power ministries are in advanced talks to merge smaller power companies with NTPC and NHPC, according to a report by ET NOW.<\/p>\n<p>Shares of NTPC were trading over 1 per cent down at Rs 122.80 after the report, while NHPC was trading 1 per cent up at Rs 23.80.<\/p>\n<p>The report said that NTPC or NHPC may takeover smaller power companies such as Tehri Hydro Development Corporation (THDC), SJVNNSE 1.76 % and North Eastern Electric Power Corporation (NEEPCO). THDC is a joint venture between the Centre and UP government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Finance and power ministries are in advanced talks to merge smaller power companies with NTPC and NHPC, according to a report by ET NOW. Shares of NTPC were trading over 1 per cent down at Rs 122.80 after the report, while NHPC was trading 1 per cent up at Rs 23.80. The report said that NTPC or NHPC may takeover smaller power companies such as Tehri Hydro Development Corporation (THDC), SJVNNSE 1.76 % and North Eastern Electric Power Corporation (NEEPCO). THDC is a joint venture between the Centre and UP government.<\/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":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291462","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=291462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}