{"id":340888,"date":"2020-03-07T12:16:38","date_gmt":"2020-03-07T06:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=340888"},"modified":"2020-03-07T12:16:38","modified_gmt":"2020-03-07T06:46:38","slug":"india-invites-bids-for-bpcl-privatisation-bars-state-entities-from-the-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-invites-bids-for-bpcl-privatisation-bars-state-entities-from-the-process\/","title":{"rendered":"India invites bids for BPCL privatisation, bars state entities from the process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Indian government on Saturday invited initial bids for sale of its entire 52.98% cent stake in Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd (BPCL).<\/p>\n<p>The last date for submission of expressions of interest is 2 May and interested parties must have a minimum net worth of $10 billion, according to the bid document issued by the Department of Investment and Public Asset Management.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;CPSEs and central government owned cooperative societies&#8211;where the government ownership is 51% or more&#8211;are not eligible to participate in the proposed transaction,&#8221; the bid document said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Indian government on Saturday invited initial bids for sale of its entire 52.98% cent stake in Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd (BPCL). The last date for submission of expressions of interest is 2 May and interested parties must have a minimum net worth of $10 billion, according to the bid document issued by the Department of Investment and Public Asset Management. &#8220;CPSEs and central government owned cooperative societies&#8211;where the government ownership is 51% or more&#8211;are not eligible to participate in the proposed transaction,&#8221; the bid document said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340888","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}