{"id":370860,"date":"2020-08-31T12:21:33","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T06:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=370860"},"modified":"2020-08-31T12:21:33","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T06:51:33","slug":"air-india-an-asset-but-govt-shouldnt-be-running-airlines-airports-puri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/air-india-an-asset-but-govt-shouldnt-be-running-airlines-airports-puri\/","title":{"rendered":"Air India an asset, but govt shouldn&#8217;t be running airlines, airports: Puri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government should not be running airports and airlines Union Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on Sunday adding that he is hopeful of completing Air India&#8217;s privatization process within 2020.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Air India has been an asset and has a very good record, very trained professional people. But, the government should not be running airports and airlines, our government rules should be applied to commercial entities,&#8221; Puri said at a meeting held via video conferencing on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is important that as a growing concern, one that is attractive to potential bidders we should privatize it. I am hopeful that we will complete its privatization process this year,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government should not be running airports and airlines Union Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on Sunday adding that he is hopeful of completing Air India&#8217;s privatization process within 2020. &#8220;Air India has been an asset and has a very good record, very trained professional people. But, the government should not be running airports and airlines, our government rules should be applied to commercial entities,&#8221; Puri said at a meeting held via video conferencing on Sunday. &#8220;It is important that as a growing concern, one that is attractive to potential bidders we should privatize it. I am hopeful [&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-370860","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\/370860","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=370860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}