{"id":304857,"date":"2019-12-10T10:16:20","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T04:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=304857"},"modified":"2019-12-10T10:44:02","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T05:14:02","slug":"goyal-says-tit-for-tat-to-countries-discriminating-with-indian-cos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/goyal-says-tit-for-tat-to-countries-discriminating-with-indian-cos\/","title":{"rendered":"Goyal says tit for tat to countries discriminating with Indian cos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Any country discriminating against Indian companies in the award of contracts would not be allowed to participate in public procurement contracts, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Free and equal access&#8221; is the policy adopted by this government two years ago, he said at an event organised by EXIM Bank here. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When we took the stand not to be a part of RCEP, one of the major stumbling blocks was also the fact that our businesses in the areas of our strength do not get an equal and fair opportunity when it comes to engaging with contracts or businesses in other geographies,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p>The minister said he had not heard that China ever opens up any of their government contracts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Any country discriminating against Indian companies in the award of contracts would not be allowed to participate in public procurement contracts, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said on Monday. &#8220;Free and equal access&#8221; is the policy adopted by this government two years ago, he said at an event organised by EXIM Bank here. &#8220;When we took the stand not to be a part of RCEP, one of the major stumbling blocks was also the fact that our businesses in the areas of our strength do not get an equal and fair opportunity when it comes to engaging with contracts [&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":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304857","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=304857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}