{"id":296283,"date":"2019-10-15T12:58:17","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T07:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=296283"},"modified":"2019-10-15T12:58:17","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T07:28:17","slug":"cabinet-may-consider-to-hive-off-gail-pipeline-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/cabinet-may-consider-to-hive-off-gail-pipeline-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Cabinet may consider to hive off GAIL pipeline business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Union Cabinet may by next month consider a proposal to hive off state-run gas utility GAIL (India) Ltd\u2019s pipeline business into a separate entity but its sale to a strategic investor may not happen before 2022, sources privy to the development said. <\/p>\n<p>GAIL is India\u2019s biggest natural gas marketing and trading firm and owns more than two-thirds of the country\u2019s 16,234-km pipeline network, giving it a stranglehold on the market. Users of natural gas have often complained about not getting access to GAIL\u2019s 11,551-km pipeline network to transport their fuel.<\/p>\n<p>Sources said to resolve the conflict arising out of the same entity owning the two jobs, bifurcating GAIL is being considered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Union Cabinet may by next month consider a proposal to hive off state-run gas utility GAIL (India) Ltd\u2019s pipeline business into a separate entity but its sale to a strategic investor may not happen before 2022, sources privy to the development said. GAIL is India\u2019s biggest natural gas marketing and trading firm and owns more than two-thirds of the country\u2019s 16,234-km pipeline network, giving it a stranglehold on the market. Users of natural gas have often complained about not getting access to GAIL\u2019s 11,551-km pipeline network to transport their fuel. Sources said to resolve the conflict arising out of [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296283","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=296283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}