{"id":346810,"date":"2020-04-15T11:58:49","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T06:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=346810"},"modified":"2020-04-15T11:58:49","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T06:28:49","slug":"govt-had-good-reasons-to-extend-lockdown-says-aviation-minister-assures-flights-will-be-in-sky-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/govt-had-good-reasons-to-extend-lockdown-says-aviation-minister-assures-flights-will-be-in-sky-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt had good reasons to extend lockdown, says aviation minister; assures flights will be in sky soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Prime Minister Narendra Modi has extended lockdown for 19 more days, Minister of Civil Aviation Hardeep Singh Puri backed the government\u2019s decision and said that it had good reasons for extending the lockdown. In a tweet shared hours after the Prime Minister\u2019s announcement, Hardeep S Puri tweeted: \u201cThere were good reasons for the lockdown to be extended till 3rd May. We can consider lifting restrictions on both domestic and international flights thereafter.\u201d As aviation is one of the worst hit sectors due to lockdown, the aviation minister also said that he is aware of the problems faced by people who need to travel. <\/p>\n<p>Earlier, he had also said that his \u201cheart goes out\u201d to people who are suffering because of the lockdown and assured that the government will lift restrictions as soon as it is confident that the coronavirus situation is under control. The government had earlier imposed travel and flight restrictions to curb coronavirus menace in view of rising cases globally and in India. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Prime Minister Narendra Modi has extended lockdown for 19 more days, Minister of Civil Aviation Hardeep Singh Puri backed the government\u2019s decision and said that it had good reasons for extending the lockdown. In a tweet shared hours after the Prime Minister\u2019s announcement, Hardeep S Puri tweeted: \u201cThere were good reasons for the lockdown to be extended till 3rd May. We can consider lifting restrictions on both domestic and international flights thereafter.\u201d As aviation is one of the worst hit sectors due to lockdown, the aviation minister also said that he is aware of the problems faced by people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[196,130,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-346810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346810","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}