{"id":399185,"date":"2021-02-05T11:16:31","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T05:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=399185"},"modified":"2021-02-05T11:16:31","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T05:46:31","slug":"gail-bifurcation-plan-put-on-hold-company-to-monetise-pipelines-through-invit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/gail-bifurcation-plan-put-on-hold-company-to-monetise-pipelines-through-invit\/","title":{"rendered":"GAIL bifurcation plan put on hold; company to monetise pipelines through InvIT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Oil Ministry has put on hold a plan to bifurcate state-owned gas utility GAIL (India) Ltd so as not to dilute the firm&#8217;s ability to finance the massive infrastructure building plan, a top official said on Thursday. GAIL is India&#8217;s biggest natural gas marketing and trading firm and owns 60 per cent of the country&#8217;s 26,284-km gas pipeline network, giving it a stranglehold on the market.<\/p>\n<p>To resolve the issue, it was proposed that GAIL&#8217;s pipeline business should be hived off into a separate entity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Oil Ministry has put on hold a plan to bifurcate state-owned gas utility GAIL (India) Ltd so as not to dilute the firm&#8217;s ability to finance the massive infrastructure building plan, a top official said on Thursday. GAIL is India&#8217;s biggest natural gas marketing and trading firm and owns 60 per cent of the country&#8217;s 26,284-km gas pipeline network, giving it a stranglehold on the market. To resolve the issue, it was proposed that GAIL&#8217;s pipeline business should be hived off into a separate entity.<\/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":[130,191,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-399185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399185","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=399185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}