{"id":303294,"date":"2019-11-28T12:18:53","date_gmt":"2019-11-28T06:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=303294"},"modified":"2019-11-28T12:19:07","modified_gmt":"2019-11-28T06:49:07","slug":"a-private-air-india-or-a-dead-air-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/a-private-air-india-or-a-dead-air-india\/","title":{"rendered":"A private Air India or a dead Air India?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Keep running Air India operations is difficult for the government without privatising the loss-making national carrier, Union Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on Wednesday. It comes days after finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that the government is aiming to sell loss-making Air India by March next year. \u201cIf we don\u2019t privatise Air India, where will we get the money from to operate it? Right now, Air India is a first class asset &amp; we will get bidders if we sell it. And if we take ideological positions then it will be difficult to run it,\u201d Hardeep Singh Puri told news agency ANI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keep running Air India operations is difficult for the government without privatising the loss-making national carrier, Union Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on Wednesday. It comes days after finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that the government is aiming to sell loss-making Air India by March next year. \u201cIf we don\u2019t privatise Air India, where will we get the money from to operate it? Right now, Air India is a first class asset &amp; we will get bidders if we sell it. And if we take ideological positions then it will be difficult to run it,\u201d Hardeep Singh Puri told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[196,130,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303294","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}