{"id":370314,"date":"2020-08-27T12:08:21","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T06:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=370314"},"modified":"2020-08-27T13:02:40","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T07:32:40","slug":"trade-unions-urge-oil-minister-to-reconsider-bpcl-privatisation-move-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/trade-unions-urge-oil-minister-to-reconsider-bpcl-privatisation-move-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Trade unions urge Oil Minister to reconsider BPCL privatisation move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trade unions on Wednesday urged Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan to reconsider the proposed privatisation of Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL).<\/p>\n<p> In a joint letter to Pradhan, the unions said, \u201cThe joint platform of central trade unions and federations urges upon you to please seriously reconsider and refrain from such move of privatization of BPCL in the interests of the nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> It said despite opposition by trade unions and BPCL employee unions, the government is going ahead with the public sector firm\u2019s privatisation.<\/p>\n<p>BPCL was formed by the nationalisation of multinational petroleum companies through an Act of Parliament, which was a major step towards strengthening the country\u2019s petroleum sector, it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trade unions on Wednesday urged Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan to reconsider the proposed privatisation of Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL). In a joint letter to Pradhan, the unions said, \u201cThe joint platform of central trade unions and federations urges upon you to please seriously reconsider and refrain from such move of privatization of BPCL in the interests of the nation.\u201d It said despite opposition by trade unions and BPCL employee unions, the government is going ahead with the public sector firm\u2019s privatisation. BPCL was formed by the nationalisation of multinational petroleum companies through an Act of Parliament, which was a [&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":[130,211,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370314","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=370314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}