{"id":376215,"date":"2020-10-01T09:22:01","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T03:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=376215"},"modified":"2020-10-01T09:49:23","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T04:19:23","slug":"no-bids-for-indias-2-5th-of-coal-mines-up-for-auction-reflect-little-investor-appetite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/no-bids-for-indias-2-5th-of-coal-mines-up-for-auction-reflect-little-investor-appetite\/","title":{"rendered":"No bids for India&#8217;s 2\/5th of coal mines up for auction reflect little investor appetite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India received no bids for 15 of the 38 mines to be auctioned as a part of its plan to open up coal mining to private companies, reflecting little investor appetite for the sector clouded by environmental concerns and low margins. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A total number of 82 bids from 46 companies have been received off-line\/physically in the office of the nominated authority for 23 coal mines\/blocks,&#8221; the coal ministry said in a statement late on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Coal production in India has largely been restricted to state-run Coal India Ltd and another smaller government-controlled company. Prime Minister Narendra Modi opened up coal mining to the private sector this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India received no bids for 15 of the 38 mines to be auctioned as a part of its plan to open up coal mining to private companies, reflecting little investor appetite for the sector clouded by environmental concerns and low margins. &#8220;A total number of 82 bids from 46 companies have been received off-line\/physically in the office of the nominated authority for 23 coal mines\/blocks,&#8221; the coal ministry said in a statement late on Monday. Coal production in India has largely been restricted to state-run Coal India Ltd and another smaller government-controlled company. Prime Minister Narendra Modi opened up coal [&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":[175,146,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376215","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=376215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}