{"id":399213,"date":"2021-02-05T11:20:54","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T05:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=399213"},"modified":"2021-02-05T11:23:31","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T05:53:31","slug":"government-owes-air-india-%e2%82%b9498-crore-for-vvip-charter-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/government-owes-air-india-%e2%82%b9498-crore-for-vvip-charter-flights\/","title":{"rendered":"Government owes Air India \u20b9498 crore for VVIP charter flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI : Various government departments owe divestment-bound Air India Ltd nearly \u20b9500 crore towards VVIP charter flights at a time the national carrier is struggling financially.<\/p>\n<p>Civil aviation minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Wednesday told the Rajya Sabha that the government\u2019s total dues on account of airfares for VVIP flights stood at \u20b9498.17 crore at the end of 31 December.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUsually, the credit period for government of India departments varies from 15 to 30 days from the receipt of invoice and no interest is paid to Air India in case of non-payment within the credit period,&#8221; Puri said in the upper house of the parliament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI : Various government departments owe divestment-bound Air India Ltd nearly \u20b9500 crore towards VVIP charter flights at a time the national carrier is struggling financially. Civil aviation minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Wednesday told the Rajya Sabha that the government\u2019s total dues on account of airfares for VVIP flights stood at \u20b9498.17 crore at the end of 31 December. \u201cUsually, the credit period for government of India departments varies from 15 to 30 days from the receipt of invoice and no interest is paid to Air India in case of non-payment within the credit period,&#8221; Puri said in [&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-399213","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\/399213","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=399213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}