{"id":292597,"date":"2019-09-19T04:44:54","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T04:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=292597"},"modified":"2019-09-19T04:48:07","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T04:48:07","slug":"air-india-privatisation-sitharaman-meets-puri-ahead-of-first-gom-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/air-india-privatisation-sitharaman-meets-puri-ahead-of-first-gom-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Air India privatisation: Sitharaman meets Puri ahead of first GoM meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri, along with senior bureaucrats, met on Wednesday, ahead of the meeting of the group of ministers (GoM) on the proposed privatisation of Air India on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the preliminary meeting. There is a meeting of the alternate mechanism scheduled tomorrow. All I can say is as we progress, you will be kept informed,\u201d Puri told reporters in the Finance Ministry. <\/p>\n<p>Puri added that the meeting of the Air India Specific Alternative Mechanism (AISAM) will discuss the airline\u2019s debt position and issuance of the expression of interest, which will formally kick of the government\u2019s second attempt to sell the beleaguered national carrier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri, along with senior bureaucrats, met on Wednesday, ahead of the meeting of the group of ministers (GoM) on the proposed privatisation of Air India on Thursday. \u201cThis is the preliminary meeting. There is a meeting of the alternate mechanism scheduled tomorrow. All I can say is as we progress, you will be kept informed,\u201d Puri told reporters in the Finance Ministry. Puri added that the meeting of the Air India Specific Alternative Mechanism (AISAM) will discuss the airline\u2019s debt position and issuance of the expression of interest, which 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":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292597","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=292597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}