{"id":368991,"date":"2020-08-21T08:36:52","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T03:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=368991"},"modified":"2020-08-21T09:48:57","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T04:18:57","slug":"kerala-govt-centre-on-collision-course-over-privatisation-of-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/kerala-govt-centre-on-collision-course-over-privatisation-of-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerala govt, Centre on collision course over privatisation of airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has written a letter to the Prime Minister, objecting to the Centre\u2019s \u201cunilateral\u201d decision regarding privatisation of Thiruvananthapuram airport. <\/p>\n<p>The state government has said that its proposal to match the offer made by the highest bidder \u2014 the Adani group \u2014 for Thiruvananthapuram airport was not allowed by the Centre, and therefore the people would oppose the move. <\/p>\n<p>In the letter, the CM said it would be difficult for the local administration to cooperate with the Centre following the latter\u2019s move. \u201cI request your good self to intervene at this stage, so that the decision taken now is reconsidered,\u201d wrote Vijayan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has written a letter to the Prime Minister, objecting to the Centre\u2019s \u201cunilateral\u201d decision regarding privatisation of Thiruvananthapuram airport. The state government has said that its proposal to match the offer made by the highest bidder \u2014 the Adani group \u2014 for Thiruvananthapuram airport was not allowed by the Centre, and therefore the people would oppose the move. In the letter, the CM said it would be difficult for the local administration to cooperate with the Centre following the latter\u2019s move. \u201cI request your good self to intervene at this stage, so that the decision [&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":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-368991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368991","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=368991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}