{"id":429092,"date":"2021-08-05T09:28:44","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T03:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=429092"},"modified":"2021-08-05T11:16:13","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T05:46:13","slug":"chandigarh-goenka-group-set-to-take-over-power-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/chandigarh-goenka-group-set-to-take-over-power-department\/","title":{"rendered":"Chandigarh: Goenka Group set to take over power department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kolkata-based industrial and services conglomerate RP-Sanjiv Goenka (RPSG) Group is all set to take over the Chandigarh electricity department. <\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, the group\u2019s flagship Calcutta Electric Supply Corporation (CESC)\u2019s wholly-owned subsidiary Eminent Electricity Distribution (EED) quoted the highest bid for the department.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEED quoted a bid of around \u20b9871 crore against the reserve price of \u20b9175 crore,\u201d said a senior UT official privy to the development. The next highest bid of \u20b9606 crore was made by Torrent Power (see box). <\/p>\n<p>EED was one of the seven companies in the race for taking over the department, others being Sterlite Power, ReNew Wing Energy, NTPC Electric Supply Company Limited, Adani Transmission Limited, Tata Power and Torrent Power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kolkata-based industrial and services conglomerate RP-Sanjiv Goenka (RPSG) Group is all set to take over the Chandigarh electricity department. On Wednesday, the group\u2019s flagship Calcutta Electric Supply Corporation (CESC)\u2019s wholly-owned subsidiary Eminent Electricity Distribution (EED) quoted the highest bid for the department. \u201cEED quoted a bid of around \u20b9871 crore against the reserve price of \u20b9175 crore,\u201d said a senior UT official privy to the development. The next highest bid of \u20b9606 crore was made by Torrent Power (see box). EED was one of the seven companies in the race for taking over the department, others being Sterlite Power, ReNew [&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":[141,130,236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-power-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429092","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=429092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}