{"id":341002,"date":"2020-03-09T12:07:21","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T06:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=341002"},"modified":"2020-03-09T12:07:21","modified_gmt":"2020-03-09T06:37:21","slug":"govt-invites-bids-for-bpcls-privatisation-bars-state-entities-from-the-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/govt-invites-bids-for-bpcls-privatisation-bars-state-entities-from-the-process\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt invites bids for BPCL&#8217;s 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-341002","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\/341002","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=341002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}