{"id":292702,"date":"2019-09-19T06:31:16","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T06:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=292702"},"modified":"2019-09-19T06:31:16","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T06:31:16","slug":"india-to-invite-bids-from-global-coal-miners-before-end-of-2019-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-to-invite-bids-from-global-coal-miners-before-end-of-2019-report\/","title":{"rendered":"India to invite bids from global coal miners before end of 2019: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: 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.<br \/>\nCoal 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.<br \/>\nThe 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>NEW DELHI: 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 [&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":[222,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292702","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=292702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}