{"id":342508,"date":"2020-03-19T11:29:24","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T05:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=342508"},"modified":"2020-03-19T12:12:22","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T06:42:22","slug":"govt-mulls-up-to-%e2%82%b912000-cr-rescue-plan-for-aviation-sector-after-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/govt-mulls-up-to-%e2%82%b912000-cr-rescue-plan-for-aviation-sector-after-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt mulls up to \u20b912,000 cr rescue plan for aviation sector after coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India is planning a rescue package worth as much as $1.6 billion for the aviation sector, which has been battered after the coronavirus outbreak forced countries to close borders and brought air travel to a near-halt, two government sources told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>The Finance Ministry is considering a proposal that includes the temporary suspension of most taxes levied on the sector, including a deferment of aviation fuel tax, said the sources, who have direct knowledge of the matter.<\/p>\n<p>The rescue package, proposed by India&#8217;s civil aviation ministry, is likely to be worth up to \u20b910,000-12,000 crore ($1.3-$1.6 billion), the two sources said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India is planning a rescue package worth as much as $1.6 billion for the aviation sector, which has been battered after the coronavirus outbreak forced countries to close borders and brought air travel to a near-halt, two government sources told Reuters. The Finance Ministry is considering a proposal that includes the temporary suspension of most taxes levied on the sector, including a deferment of aviation fuel tax, said the sources, who have direct knowledge of the matter. The rescue package, proposed by India&#8217;s civil aviation ministry, is likely to be worth up to \u20b910,000-12,000 crore ($1.3-$1.6 billion), the two sources [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342508","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=342508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}