{"id":276985,"date":"2019-06-01T05:28:43","date_gmt":"2019-06-01T05:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=276985"},"modified":"2019-06-01T05:39:51","modified_gmt":"2019-06-01T05:39:51","slug":"stiff-challenges-ahead-for-new-civil-aviation-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/stiff-challenges-ahead-for-new-civil-aviation-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Stiff challenges ahead for new Civil Aviation Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hardeep Singh Puri, who has been appointed as Minister of State (Independent Charge) in the Ministry of Civil Aviation, has his job cut out for him. <\/p>\n<p>A career diplomat, Puri also holds additional charge of Housing, Urban Affairs and Commerce and Industry all of which should help him take a holistic view of the civil aviation sector. <\/p>\n<p>KC Singh, a former diplomat and Puri\u2019s batch mate, feels that the new Minister is taking over at a \u201cchallenging time\u201d as one airline has shut down and a question mark hangs over the future of Air India but adds that Puri will bring basic common sense into how civil aviation operates globally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hardeep Singh Puri, who has been appointed as Minister of State (Independent Charge) in the Ministry of Civil Aviation, has his job cut out for him. A career diplomat, Puri also holds additional charge of Housing, Urban Affairs and Commerce and Industry all of which should help him take a holistic view of the civil aviation sector. KC Singh, a former diplomat and Puri\u2019s batch mate, feels that the new Minister is taking over at a \u201cchallenging time\u201d as one airline has shut down and a question mark hangs over the future of Air India but adds that Puri will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276985","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}