{"id":311308,"date":"2020-01-20T13:02:53","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T07:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=311308"},"modified":"2020-01-20T13:02:53","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T07:32:53","slug":"government-likely-to-issue-eoi-share-purchase-agreement-for-air-india-within-3-4-days-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/government-likely-to-issue-eoi-share-purchase-agreement-for-air-india-within-3-4-days-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Government likely to issue EoI, share purchase agreement for Air India within 3-4 days: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Centre is likely to issue the expression of interest (EoI) and the share purchase agreement (SPA) for debt-ridden Air India&#8217;s privatisation within the next three to four days, a senior government official said on Friday.<br \/>\nThe official said that &#8220;a group of ministers (GoM), headed by Union home minister (Amit Shah), had on January 7 approved the EoI and the SPA for the airline&#8221;.<br \/>\n&#8220;We will issue these within three to four days,&#8221; the government official said.<br \/>\nWhile Air India&#8217;s net loss in 2018-19 was around Rs 8,556 crore, its current total debt is around Rs 80,000 crore.<br \/>\nDismissing rumours that the national carrier will shut down operations, civil aviation minister Hardeep Singh Puri had said on December 31 that the national carrier, which is incurring a loss of Rs 20 crore to Rs 26 crore daily, will keep on operating till it is privatised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Centre is likely to issue the expression of interest (EoI) and the share purchase agreement (SPA) for debt-ridden Air India&#8217;s privatisation within the next three to four days, a senior government official said on Friday. The official said that &#8220;a group of ministers (GoM), headed by Union home minister (Amit Shah), had on January 7 approved the EoI and the SPA for the airline&#8221;. &#8220;We will issue these within three to four days,&#8221; the government official said. While Air India&#8217;s net loss in 2018-19 was around Rs 8,556 crore, its current total debt is around Rs 80,000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311308","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}