{"id":384325,"date":"2020-11-16T12:51:51","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T07:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=384325"},"modified":"2020-11-16T12:51:51","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T07:21:51","slug":"cashing-in-centre-asks-cpses-to-use-reserves-to-pay-dividends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/cashing-in-centre-asks-cpses-to-use-reserves-to-pay-dividends\/","title":{"rendered":"Cashing in: Centre asks CPSEs to use reserves to pay dividends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hard-pressed for funds, the Centre has asked the companies owed by it to desist from offering just mandatory \u2018minimum dividend\u2019 to it, and dip into even their accumulated reserves to boost the payout this fiscal.<\/p>\n<p>The directive has come at a time when their profits have plunged and the cash balances have shrunk due to the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hard-pressed for funds, the Centre has asked the companies owed by it to desist from offering just mandatory \u2018minimum dividend\u2019 to it, and dip into even their accumulated reserves to boost the payout this fiscal. The directive has come at a time when their profits have plunged and the cash balances have shrunk due to the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/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":[130,240,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-384325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384325","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=384325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}