{"id":405931,"date":"2021-03-20T10:18:58","date_gmt":"2021-03-20T04:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=405931"},"modified":"2021-03-20T10:18:58","modified_gmt":"2021-03-20T04:48:58","slug":"cci-clears-tata-powers-purchase-of-nesco-utility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/cci-clears-tata-powers-purchase-of-nesco-utility\/","title":{"rendered":"CCI clears Tata power\u2019s purchase of NESCO Utility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has cleared Tata Power Company Ltd.\u2019s purchase of 51% stake in North Eastern Electricity Supply Company of Odisha (NESCO Utility), the competition watchdog said in a statement on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Tata Power bought the utility form Grid Corporation of Odisha Ltd. in a competitive bidding initiated by the Odisha Electricity Regulatory Commission, the statement said. The clearance was given on Thursday, the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>NESCO Utility, a more than two decade old entity, is distributing power in five districts of Odisha\u2014Balasore, Bhadrak, Jajpur, Keonjhar and Baripada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has cleared Tata Power Company Ltd.\u2019s purchase of 51% stake in North Eastern Electricity Supply Company of Odisha (NESCO Utility), the competition watchdog said in a statement on Friday. Tata Power bought the utility form Grid Corporation of Odisha Ltd. in a competitive bidding initiated by the Odisha Electricity Regulatory Commission, the statement said. The clearance was given on Thursday, the statement said. NESCO Utility, a more than two decade old entity, is distributing power in five districts of Odisha\u2014Balasore, Bhadrak, Jajpur, Keonjhar and Baripada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-power-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405931","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}