{"id":374307,"date":"2020-09-19T12:04:39","date_gmt":"2020-09-19T06:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=374307"},"modified":"2020-09-19T13:17:57","modified_gmt":"2020-09-19T07:47:57","slug":"airlines-have-sought-1-5-bn-interest-free-credit-says-hardeep-singh-puri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/airlines-have-sought-1-5-bn-interest-free-credit-says-hardeep-singh-puri\/","title":{"rendered":"Airlines have sought $1.5 bn interest-free credit, says Hardeep Singh Puri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To be able to cope with the loss of revenue on account of Covid-19, Indian airlines have sought interest-free credit of $1.5 billion from the Centre, Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri told Parliament Wednesday. Additionally, airlines have also requested that state-owned banks and financial institutions defer repayment of loans to aviation industry by six months and not treated them as non-performing assets (NPA), the minister noted in a written reply to the Rajya Sabha.<\/p>\n<p>According to air traffic data released by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation on Wednesday, 28.32 lakh domestic passengers travelled this August \u2014 the third full month of flight operations since the unlock \u2014 as against 1.18 crore passengers in August last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To be able to cope with the loss of revenue on account of Covid-19, Indian airlines have sought interest-free credit of $1.5 billion from the Centre, Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri told Parliament Wednesday. Additionally, airlines have also requested that state-owned banks and financial institutions defer repayment of loans to aviation industry by six months and not treated them as non-performing assets (NPA), the minister noted in a written reply to the Rajya Sabha. According to air traffic data released by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation on Wednesday, 28.32 lakh domestic passengers travelled this August \u2014 the third [&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-374307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374307","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=374307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}