{"id":276723,"date":"2019-05-30T06:34:37","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T06:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=276723"},"modified":"2019-05-30T06:34:37","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T06:34:37","slug":"air-india-seeks-nod-for-rs-2400-crore-nssf-loan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/air-india-seeks-nod-for-rs-2400-crore-nssf-loan\/","title":{"rendered":"Air India seeks nod for Rs 2,400 crore NSSF loan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cash-strapped Air India has sought the government\u2019s approval to borrow Rs 2,400 crore from the National Small Savings Fund (NSSF), a pool of small savings from households, to meet its working capital requirements.<\/p>\n<p>The disinvestment-bound airline, which has seen its total debt ballooning to Rs 58,000 crore, made the request at a meeting of all the top bosses of agencies working under the Civil Aviation Ministry. The meeting was chaired by Civil Aviation Secretary Pradeep Singh Kharola.<\/p>\n<p>The Aviation Secretary is, however, learnt to have advised Air India to discuss its financial issues separately. \u201cThis is fresh requirement beyond what had been approved earlier,\u201d said an official.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cash-strapped Air India has sought the government\u2019s approval to borrow Rs 2,400 crore from the National Small Savings Fund (NSSF), a pool of small savings from households, to meet its working capital requirements. The disinvestment-bound airline, which has seen its total debt ballooning to Rs 58,000 crore, made the request at a meeting of all the top bosses of agencies working under the Civil Aviation Ministry. The meeting was chaired by Civil Aviation Secretary Pradeep Singh Kharola. The Aviation Secretary is, however, learnt to have advised Air India to discuss its financial issues separately. \u201cThis is fresh requirement beyond what [&hellip;]<\/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":[208,130,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276723","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=276723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}