{"id":371162,"date":"2020-09-01T12:31:07","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T07:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=371162"},"modified":"2020-09-01T13:32:37","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T08:02:37","slug":"air-india-has-been-an-asset-hardeep-puri-hopeful-of-privatising-air-india-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/air-india-has-been-an-asset-hardeep-puri-hopeful-of-privatising-air-india-in-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Air India has been an asset: Hardeep Puri hopeful of privatising Air India in 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: 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>New Delhi: 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 [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-371162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371162","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=371162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}