{"id":440192,"date":"2021-10-05T10:12:40","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T04:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=440192"},"modified":"2021-10-05T11:33:43","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T06:03:43","slug":"air-india-bid-ministerial-group-holds-meet-announcement-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/air-india-bid-ministerial-group-holds-meet-announcement-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Air India bid: Ministerial group holds meet, \u2018announcement soon\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Air India Specific Alternate Mechanism (AISAM), a group of ministers led by Home Minister Amit Shah, met on Monday to discuss the national carrier\u2019s disinvestment, sources said.<\/p>\n<p>While it is unclear whether the AISAM approved the proposal to ratify the winning bid, a senior government official said that \u201can announcement will be made soon\u201d. In addition to the Home Minister, the AISAM comprises Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal and Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia.<\/p>\n<p>The Indian Express reported Saturday that the Tata Group has emerged as the frontrunner to acquire Air India. The Mumbai-based conglomerate has placed the highest bid \u2014 over Rs 5,000 crore more than SpiceJet promoter Ajay Singh, who participated in his individual capacity in the bidding process, according to people in the know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Air India Specific Alternate Mechanism (AISAM), a group of ministers led by Home Minister Amit Shah, met on Monday to discuss the national carrier\u2019s disinvestment, sources said. While it is unclear whether the AISAM approved the proposal to ratify the winning bid, a senior government official said that \u201can announcement will be made soon\u201d. In addition to the Home Minister, the AISAM comprises Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal and Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia. The Indian Express reported Saturday that the Tata Group has emerged as the frontrunner to acquire Air India. The Mumbai-based conglomerate has [&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-440192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440192","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=440192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}