Sitharaman, Hardeep Singh Puri likely to be in new GoM for Air India sale
The government would soon reconstitute a group of ministers charged with Air India’s privatisation decisions, following which the Centre plans to start the process of taking another shot at selling the national carrier, by issuing a new expression of interest.
In Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s first term, the Air India-Specific Alternative Mechanism (AISAM), as the group of ministers is known, comprised then Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari, Commerce and Civil Aviation Minister Suresh Prabhu and Rail Minister Piyush Goyal.
With Jaitley and Prabhu no longer a part of Modi’s Cabinet, the AISAM will be reconstituted to include the current finance minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, and the civil aviation minister, Hardeep Singh Puri, Business Standard has learnt. Gadkari and Goyal are expected to stay on in the group.
