{"id":292731,"date":"2019-09-19T06:46:53","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T06:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=292731"},"modified":"2019-09-19T06:59:26","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T06:59:26","slug":"india-to-invite-bids-from-global-coal-miners-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-to-invite-bids-from-global-coal-miners-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"India to invite bids from global coal miners soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India plans to invite bids from global firms for the first time for coal mining blocks before 2019 ends, 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 2019 ends, 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, [&hellip;]<\/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":[175,146,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292731","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=292731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}