{"id":335343,"date":"2020-02-03T11:34:22","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T06:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=335343"},"modified":"2020-02-03T11:56:14","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T06:26:14","slug":"budget-2020-21-rs-3797-crore-earmarked-for-aviation-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/budget-2020-21-rs-3797-crore-earmarked-for-aviation-ministry\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget 2020-21: Rs 3,797 crore earmarked for Aviation Ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Ministry of Civil Aviation has been allocated Rs 3,797 crore in this year&#8217;s Budget, 2.62 per cent higher than Rs 3,700 crore which was allocated in the 2019-20 fiscal year.<\/p>\n<p>For the purchase of two B777 aircrafts &#8211; which would be for travel of the prime minister, president and vice president &#8211; the government has allocated Rs 810 crore in this year&#8217;s budget that is significantly higher than Rs 272 crore allocated in 2019-20.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, President Ram Nath Kovind and Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu fly on Air India&#8217;s B747 planes, which have the call sign &#8216;Air India One&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The government has allocated Rs 465 crore for its regional connectivity scheme Udan, which is 3.1 per cent higher than what was allocated in 2019-20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Ministry of Civil Aviation has been allocated Rs 3,797 crore in this year&#8217;s Budget, 2.62 per cent higher than Rs 3,700 crore which was allocated in the 2019-20 fiscal year. For the purchase of two B777 aircrafts &#8211; which would be for travel of the prime minister, president and vice president &#8211; the government has allocated Rs 810 crore in this year&#8217;s budget that is significantly higher than Rs 272 crore allocated in 2019-20. Currently, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, President Ram Nath Kovind and Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu fly on Air India&#8217;s B747 planes, which have 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":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-335343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335343","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=335343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}