{"id":304155,"date":"2019-12-04T12:36:30","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T07:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=304155"},"modified":"2019-12-04T12:59:19","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T07:29:19","slug":"kerala-govts-helicopter-plans-hit-rough-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/kerala-govts-helicopter-plans-hit-rough-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerala govt&#8217;s helicopter plans hit rough weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A move by Kerala government to hire a helicopter for anti-Naxal operations and VIP movements has triggered a row as the state is facing acute financial crunches. <\/p>\n<p>The government decided to sign an agreement with Pawan Hans Limited for hiring a twin-engine 11-seater helicopter at a monthly rent of Rs. 1.44 crore for 20 hours flying and around Rs. 67,900 for every additional hour. <\/p>\n<p>However, the Opposition Congress-led United Democratic Front strongly opposed it citing that the decision came at a time when the state was facing acute financial crunches and even restrictions imposed on the exchequer. Opposition leader Ramesh Chennithala alleged of vested interests behind the move to hire a helicopter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A move by Kerala government to hire a helicopter for anti-Naxal operations and VIP movements has triggered a row as the state is facing acute financial crunches. The government decided to sign an agreement with Pawan Hans Limited for hiring a twin-engine 11-seater helicopter at a monthly rent of Rs. 1.44 crore for 20 hours flying and around Rs. 67,900 for every additional hour. However, the Opposition Congress-led United Democratic Front strongly opposed it citing that the decision came at a time when the state was facing acute financial crunches and even restrictions imposed on the exchequer. Opposition leader Ramesh [&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":[176,146,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304155","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=304155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}