{"id":289635,"date":"2019-08-30T07:05:12","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T07:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=289635"},"modified":"2019-08-30T07:05:12","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T07:05:12","slug":"govt-determined-to-privatise-air-india-says-hardeep-puri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/govt-determined-to-privatise-air-india-says-hardeep-puri\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt determined to privatise Air India, says Hardeep Puri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Government\u2019s determination to privatise Air India \u201cis a given and is undiluted,\u201d Hardeep Singh Puri, Minister of State for Civil Aviation, said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt (Air India) should be totally privatised. We have to get the best possible deal and we have to get it in the shortest possible time available,\u201d the Minister said adding that the government should not be in the business of running an airline.<\/p>\n<p>Stating that he would not like to comment on the earlier wavering when the government found itself in a situation of holding back 26 per cent stake in the airline, Puri said there will be a lot of interest in the market for buying Air India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Government\u2019s determination to privatise Air India \u201cis a given and is undiluted,\u201d Hardeep Singh Puri, Minister of State for Civil Aviation, said on Thursday. \u201cIt (Air India) should be totally privatised. We have to get the best possible deal and we have to get it in the shortest possible time available,\u201d the Minister said adding that the government should not be in the business of running an airline. Stating that he would not like to comment on the earlier wavering when the government found itself in a situation of holding back 26 per cent stake in the airline, Puri [&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-289635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289635","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=289635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}