{"id":377449,"date":"2020-10-08T12:04:47","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T06:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=377449"},"modified":"2020-10-08T12:39:43","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T07:09:43","slug":"air-india-deal-may-be-further-sweetened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/air-india-deal-may-be-further-sweetened\/","title":{"rendered":"Air India deal may be further sweetened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government may ease some of the conditions for potential bidders of Air India in a renewed effort to privatise the loss-making national carrier, which is crucial to achieving its ambitious divestment goal for this fiscal. <\/p>\n<p>The revised bidding document for the airline, which is expected by this month-end, could either allow potential bidders to value Air India purely on its assets or substantially reduce the Rs 23,286 crore debt currently required to be absorbed by a successful bidder.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt present, the debt offered is nearly equal to the value of Air India\u2019s assets. So the bidding is supposed to take place over and above Rs 23,286 crore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government may ease some of the conditions for potential bidders of Air India in a renewed effort to privatise the loss-making national carrier, which is crucial to achieving its ambitious divestment goal for this fiscal. The revised bidding document for the airline, which is expected by this month-end, could either allow potential bidders to value Air India purely on its assets or substantially reduce the Rs 23,286 crore debt currently required to be absorbed by a successful bidder. \u201cAt present, the debt offered is nearly equal to the value of Air India\u2019s assets. So the bidding is supposed to [&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":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-377449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377449","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=377449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}