{"id":371520,"date":"2020-09-03T10:51:17","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T05:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=371520"},"modified":"2020-09-03T10:51:17","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T05:21:17","slug":"ntpc-rec-to-bid-for-discoms-in-union-territories-according-to-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ntpc-rec-to-bid-for-discoms-in-union-territories-according-to-sources\/","title":{"rendered":"NTPC, REC to bid for discoms in Union Territories, according to sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: NTPC, the country\u2019s largest power producer, and sectoral financier REC Ltd will enter power distribution ahead of the government&#8217;s mega privatisation push in the segment.<\/p>\n<p>The two companies will start with putting in bids for privatisation of discoms in Union Territories, said people aware of the matter. The Union power ministry has suggested to the two companies that they should participate in the upcoming bidding for privatisation of distribution companies in UTs, they said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: NTPC, the country\u2019s largest power producer, and sectoral financier REC Ltd will enter power distribution ahead of the government&#8217;s mega privatisation push in the segment. The two companies will start with putting in bids for privatisation of discoms in Union Territories, said people aware of the matter. The Union power ministry has suggested to the two companies that they should participate in the upcoming bidding for privatisation of distribution companies in UTs, they said.<\/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":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-371520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371520","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=371520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}