{"id":324704,"date":"2020-01-29T11:54:55","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T06:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=324704"},"modified":"2020-01-29T11:54:55","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T06:24:55","slug":"private-sector-seeks-level-playing-field-in-coal-block-auction-for-commercial-minning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/private-sector-seeks-level-playing-field-in-coal-block-auction-for-commercial-minning\/","title":{"rendered":"Private sector seeks \u201clevel playing field\u201d in coal block auction for commercial minning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Private sector companies scouting opportunities for commercial coal mining in the country are seeking a \u201clevel playing field\u201d to encourage them to participate in the bidding process, sources said on Tuesday. Given the international scenario, global mining companies are looking to gradually reduce their exposure and investments in the coal sector and this will have an impact on FDI in commercial mining, private companies\u2019 officials said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the government does not provide the level playing field to private sector firms for commercial mining, the interest among mining firms will not take-off as it was envisaged earlier,\u201d an official of the country\u2019s leading private sector conglomerate told PTI. The opening up of commercial coal mining for private sector is the most ambitious reform since the nationalisation of this sector, ending the monopoly of state-owned Coal India Ltd (CIL).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Private sector companies scouting opportunities for commercial coal mining in the country are seeking a \u201clevel playing field\u201d to encourage them to participate in the bidding process, sources said on Tuesday. Given the international scenario, global mining companies are looking to gradually reduce their exposure and investments in the coal sector and this will have an impact on FDI in commercial mining, private companies\u2019 officials said. \u201cIf the government does not provide the level playing field to private sector firms for commercial mining, the interest among mining firms will not take-off as it was envisaged earlier,\u201d an official of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[198,130,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-324704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324704","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}