Amit Shah to head panel on Air India disinvestment

NEW DELHI: The government on Thursday reconstituted a group of ministers tasked with working out the modalities for sale of Air India.

The GoM, called the Air India Specific Alternative Mechanism, will now be headed by home minister Amit Shah and comprise three other ministers. The earlier panel had five members. The other ministers in the panel will be finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman, commerce and railway minister Piyush Goyal and civil aviation minister Hardeep Singh Puri.

“The panel has been downsized to four members as against five earlier,” said a government official, adding that the reconstituted panel is expected to have its first meeting this month.

Air India Specific Alternative Mechanism was set up in 2017 with then finance minister Arun Jaitley as its head.