{"id":282682,"date":"2019-07-17T06:06:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T06:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=282682"},"modified":"2019-07-17T06:19:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T06:19:00","slug":"rajya-sabha-passes-aera-amendment-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/rajya-sabha-passes-aera-amendment-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Rajya Sabha passes AERA (Amendment) Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Rajya Sabha Tuesday passed a Bill allowing the Airports Economic Regulatory Authority of India (AERA) to bid out any new airport at a pre-determined tariff structure. <\/p>\n<p>Replying to the discussion on the Bill, Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said,&#8221;As many as 16 airports will be in the purview of AERA. All other airports continue to be looked after by the Civil Aviation Ministry.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Currently, major airports with an annual capacity to handle one-and-a-half million passengers come under the purview of Airports Economic Regulatory Authority of India (AERA). <\/p>\n<p>If the amendment is passed by Parliament, the definition of major airports would be changed to any aerodrome which has or is designated to have annual passenger capacity of three- and-a-half million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Rajya Sabha Tuesday passed a Bill allowing the Airports Economic Regulatory Authority of India (AERA) to bid out any new airport at a pre-determined tariff structure. Replying to the discussion on the Bill, Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said,&#8221;As many as 16 airports will be in the purview of AERA. All other airports continue to be looked after by the Civil Aviation Ministry.&#8221; Currently, major airports with an annual capacity to handle one-and-a-half million passengers come under the purview of Airports Economic Regulatory Authority of India (AERA). If the amendment is passed by Parliament, the definition of [&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":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282682","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=282682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}