{"id":301288,"date":"2019-11-18T10:16:07","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T04:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=301288"},"modified":"2019-11-18T10:24:48","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T04:54:48","slug":"govt-to-wrap-up-sale-of-air-india-bpcl-by-march-2020-nirmala-sitharaman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/govt-to-wrap-up-sale-of-air-india-bpcl-by-march-2020-nirmala-sitharaman\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt to wrap up sale of Air India, BPCL by March 2020: Nirmala Sitharaman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday said the government would wrap up the sale of Air India and Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) by March 2020, according to a news report in The Times of India. <\/p>\n<p>Sitharaman also said there is a &#8220;lot of interest&#8221; among investors about the sale of Air India as seen in the international roadshows carried out by the Government. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are moving on both with the expectation that we can complete them this year. The ground realities will play out,&#8221; Sitharaman told the Times of India. <\/p>\n<p>The finance minister stated the strategic disinvestment of the two state-run companies is critical for the government to meet its disinvestment target of Rs 1 trillion for the current fiscal year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday said the government would wrap up the sale of Air India and Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) by March 2020, according to a news report in The Times of India. Sitharaman also said there is a &#8220;lot of interest&#8221; among investors about the sale of Air India as seen in the international roadshows carried out by the Government. &#8220;We are moving on both with the expectation that we can complete them this year. The ground realities will play out,&#8221; Sitharaman told the Times of India. The finance minister stated the strategic disinvestment of the [&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-301288","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\/301288","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=301288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}