{"id":354174,"date":"2020-05-29T10:40:08","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T05:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=354174"},"modified":"2020-05-29T10:59:29","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T05:29:29","slug":"air-india-employee-unions-seek-rs-50000-cr-financial-package-for-flag-carrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/air-india-employee-unions-seek-rs-50000-cr-financial-package-for-flag-carrier\/","title":{"rendered":"Air India employee unions seek Rs 50,000 cr financial package for flag carrier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A joint forum of Air India employees and staff unions has sought a Rs 50,000 crore financial succour from the government for the national carrier, stating that the airline is a necessity for the country. <\/p>\n<p>In a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Joint Forum said that Air India is a &#8220;necessity&#8221; for the country, especially in times of crises, and a financial package will not only help the flag carrier but also the entire aviation sector and the economy.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister earlier this month announced a Rs 20 lakh crore package, which combined the government&#8217;s earlier announcements on supporting key sectors as also measures rolled out by the Reserve Bank of India, to help revive the economy amid the coronavirus pandemic crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A joint forum of Air India employees and staff unions has sought a Rs 50,000 crore financial succour from the government for the national carrier, stating that the airline is a necessity for the country. In a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Joint Forum said that Air India is a &#8220;necessity&#8221; for the country, especially in times of crises, and a financial package will not only help the flag carrier but also the entire aviation sector and the economy. The prime minister earlier this month announced a Rs 20 lakh crore package, which combined the government&#8217;s earlier announcements [&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":[176,146,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354174","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=354174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}