{"id":353942,"date":"2020-05-28T12:02:03","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T06:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=353942"},"modified":"2020-05-28T12:02:03","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T06:32:03","slug":"covid-19-effect-government-extends-bpcl-privatisation-bid-deadline-to-july-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/covid-19-effect-government-extends-bpcl-privatisation-bid-deadline-to-july-31\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 effect: Government extends BPCL privatisation bid deadline to July 31"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The government has for the second time extended the deadline for bidding for privatisation of India&#8217;s second-biggest oil refiner Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd (BPCL) by over a month to July 31.<\/p>\n<p>While the Cabinet had in November last year approved the sale of government&#8217;s entire 52.98 per cent stake in BPCL, offers seeking expression of interest (EoI), or bids showing interest in buying its stake, were invited only on March 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The government has for the second time extended the deadline for bidding for privatisation of India&#8217;s second-biggest oil refiner Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd (BPCL) by over a month to July 31. While the Cabinet had in November last year approved the sale of government&#8217;s entire 52.98 per cent stake in BPCL, offers seeking expression of interest (EoI), or bids showing interest in buying its stake, were invited only on March 7.<\/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":[130,207,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353942","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=353942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}