{"id":302159,"date":"2019-11-21T14:35:08","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T09:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=302159"},"modified":"2020-05-06T17:25:28","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T11:55:28","slug":"govt-opens-up-fuel-retail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/govt-opens-up-fuel-retail\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt Opens Up Fuel Retail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On November 8, 2019, the government liberalized fuel retailing norms, allowing non-oil companies to set up petrol pumps to increase competition (see box). <\/p>\n<p>At present, to obtain a fuel retailing licence in India, a company needs to invest Rs 2,000 crore in either hydrocarbon exploration and production, refining, pipelines or liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/livemedia.press\/product-category\/subscribe-il\/?v=56b5fbba0fe8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/read-more.gif\" alt=\"http:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/read-more.gif\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 8, 2019, the government liberalized fuel retailing norms, allowing non-oil companies to set up petrol pumps to increase competition (see box). At present, to obtain a fuel retailing licence in India, a company needs to invest Rs 2,000 crore in either hydrocarbon exploration and production, refining, pipelines or liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":302161,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-magazinenews"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302159","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}