{"id":440809,"date":"2021-10-07T11:27:32","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T05:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=440809"},"modified":"2021-10-07T13:25:37","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T07:55:37","slug":"cant-talk-of-air-india-bid-its-brand-will-be-restored-to-previous-glory-after-privatisation-spicejet-cmd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/cant-talk-of-air-india-bid-its-brand-will-be-restored-to-previous-glory-after-privatisation-spicejet-cmd\/","title":{"rendered":"Can&#8217;t talk of Air India bid; its brand will be restored to previous glory after privatisation: SpiceJet CMD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BOSTON (US): A &#8220;healthy&#8221; Air India is good for the entire country and its brand would slowly be restored to its previous glory after its privatisation by the government, SpiceJet CMD Ajay Singh has said. <\/p>\n<p>When asked by PTI if he has bid for Air India in his personal capacity, Singh replied: &#8220;Well, you know, we have a confidentiality agreement with the government. So, I can&#8217;t really speak about the Air India bid.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>According to sources, financial bids put in by Singh and the Tata group for the debt-laden Air India were opened last month and were vetted by &#8216;Core Group of Secretaries on Disinvestment&#8217; &#8211; which is headed by Cabinet secretary Rajiv Gauba &#8211; on September 29.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOSTON (US): A &#8220;healthy&#8221; Air India is good for the entire country and its brand would slowly be restored to its previous glory after its privatisation by the government, SpiceJet CMD Ajay Singh has said. When asked by PTI if he has bid for Air India in his personal capacity, Singh replied: &#8220;Well, you know, we have a confidentiality agreement with the government. So, I can&#8217;t really speak about the Air India bid.&#8221; According to sources, financial bids put in by Singh and the Tata group for the debt-laden Air India were opened last month and were vetted by &#8216;Core [&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":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-440809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440809","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=440809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}