{"id":343198,"date":"2020-03-24T11:35:30","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T06:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=343198"},"modified":"2020-03-24T11:35:30","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T06:05:30","slug":"delhi-flight-ban-confusion-shows-indias-pains-to-contain-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/delhi-flight-ban-confusion-shows-indias-pains-to-contain-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi flight ban confusion shows India\u2019s pains to contain coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arvind Kejriwal, the chief minister of Delhi, declared no flights &#8212; domestic or international &#8212; will be allowed to land in the Indian capital\u2019s main airport from 6 a.m. Monday. Hours after that deadline passed, dozens of planes have been operating from the Indira Gandhi International Airport.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s because Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s administration overturned the ban, with the regulator Director General of Civil Aviation saying the airport will \u201cremain functional.&#8221; The confusion is symptomatic of how India\u2019s federal structure &#8212; with central and state governments often ruled by different political parties &#8212; pulling in different directions is set to pose challenges in containing the spread of the coronavirus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arvind Kejriwal, the chief minister of Delhi, declared no flights &#8212; domestic or international &#8212; will be allowed to land in the Indian capital\u2019s main airport from 6 a.m. Monday. Hours after that deadline passed, dozens of planes have been operating from the Indira Gandhi International Airport. That\u2019s because Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s administration overturned the ban, with the regulator Director General of Civil Aviation saying the airport will \u201cremain functional.&#8221; The confusion is symptomatic of how India\u2019s federal structure &#8212; with central and state governments often ruled by different political parties &#8212; pulling in different directions is set to [&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":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343198","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=343198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}