Futures trading at discount

I have been following NTPC futures for some days. I have observed that the futures contract of NTPC is at a discount for Sept’21 & Oct’21. Can someone plz explain why is it so? Thanks in advance

Its being discounted for the dividend which has a ex date of sep 8.

Since the dividend doesn’t get applied to contracts in general, so that value has been discounted from the futures.

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