{"id":407829,"date":"2021-03-30T11:02:46","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T05:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=407829"},"modified":"2021-03-30T11:15:21","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T05:45:21","slug":"shortlisted-bidders-for-air-india-will-have-to-submit-offer-in-next-2-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/shortlisted-bidders-for-air-india-will-have-to-submit-offer-in-next-2-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortlisted bidders for Air India will have to submit offer in next 2 months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Shortlisted bidders for national carrier Air India Limited will have to submit their offer in the next two months as the government hopes to conclude 100% divestment in the airline, civil aviation minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to news agency ANI, Puri said, during a meeting to decide on the divestment of the airline on Monday, it was decided that the shortlisted bidders will be have to submit bids within 64 days.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This time the government is determined and there is no hesitation,&#8221; Puri said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve decided that Air India will be 100% disinvested. Choice isn&#8217;t between disinvestment and non-disinvestment, it&#8217;s between disinvestment and closing down. Air India is a first-rate asset but has an accumulated debt of \u20b960,000 crore,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Shortlisted bidders for national carrier Air India Limited will have to submit their offer in the next two months as the government hopes to conclude 100% divestment in the airline, civil aviation minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on Saturday. Speaking to news agency ANI, Puri said, during a meeting to decide on the divestment of the airline on Monday, it was decided that the shortlisted bidders will be have to submit bids within 64 days. &#8220;This time the government is determined and there is no hesitation,&#8221; Puri said. &#8220;We&#8217;ve decided that Air India will be 100% disinvested. Choice [&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-407829","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\/407829","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=407829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}