{"id":437578,"date":"2021-09-22T12:20:49","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T06:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=437578"},"modified":"2021-09-22T12:20:49","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T06:50:49","slug":"sc-upholds-pspcl-decision-on-captive-coal-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/sc-upholds-pspcl-decision-on-captive-coal-block\/","title":{"rendered":"SC upholds PSPCL decision on captive coal block"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the decision of the Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB) \u2014 now known as Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) \u2014 to select the lowest bidder DBL\u00adVPR Consortium for supply of coal, saving crores of rupees for PSPCL.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA policy decision to get the best operator at the best price, cannot be said to be a decision which no reasonable person would take in his affairs,\u201d a Bench of Justices LN Rao, BR Gavai and BV Nagarathna said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the decision of the Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB) \u2014 now known as Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) \u2014 to select the lowest bidder DBL\u00adVPR Consortium for supply of coal, saving crores of rupees for PSPCL. \u201cA policy decision to get the best operator at the best price, cannot be said to be a decision which no reasonable person would take in his affairs,\u201d a Bench of Justices LN Rao, BR Gavai and BV Nagarathna said.<\/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":[226,130,150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-437578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-the-tribune","category-newspapers","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437578","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=437578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}