{"id":292650,"date":"2019-09-19T05:30:31","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T05:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=292650"},"modified":"2019-09-19T05:30:31","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T05:30:31","slug":"govt-to-invite-global-bids-in-coal-mining-this-year-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/govt-to-invite-global-bids-in-coal-mining-this-year-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt to invite global bids in coal mining this year: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India plans to invite bids from global firms for the first time for coal mining blocks before end-2019, sources familiar with the matter said, a move that would end Coal India Ltd&#8217;s near-monopoly for the fuel as the nation tries to cut imports.<\/p>\n<p>Coal is among the top five commodities imported by India, one of the world&#8217;s largest consumers of the fuel. Coal imports are surging after the government failed to open the industry to competition, despite having passed a liberalization policy 19 months ago.<\/p>\n<p>The coal block auctions are intended to attract global miners such as Glencore PLC, BHP Group, Anglo American PLC and Peabody Energy Corp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India plans to invite bids from global firms for the first time for coal mining blocks before end-2019, sources familiar with the matter said, a move that would end Coal India Ltd&#8217;s near-monopoly for the fuel as the nation tries to cut imports. Coal is among the top five commodities imported by India, one of the world&#8217;s largest consumers of the fuel. Coal imports are surging after the government failed to open the industry to competition, despite having passed a liberalization policy 19 months ago. The coal block auctions are intended to attract global miners such as Glencore PLC, BHP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[190,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292650","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}