{"id":459655,"date":"2022-01-01T09:08:07","date_gmt":"2022-01-01T03:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=459655"},"modified":"2022-01-01T09:47:35","modified_gmt":"2022-01-01T04:17:35","slug":"finmin-mandates-ticket-booking-from-3-agents-for-govt-funded-air-travels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/finmin-mandates-ticket-booking-from-3-agents-for-govt-funded-air-travels\/","title":{"rendered":"FinMin mandates ticket booking from 3 agents for govt-funded air travels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The finance ministry on Friday said that for all air travels where the government bears the cost, the tickets will be purchased from either of the three agents &#8212; Balmer Lawrie, Ashok Travels &amp; Tours, and IRCTC.<\/p>\n<p>In an office memorandum, the Department of Expenditure under the finance ministry said the decision has been taken in view of the disinvestment of Air India. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In all cases of air travel where the Government of India bears the cost of air passage, air tickets shall be purchased from the three authorised travel agents viz. Balmer Lawrie &amp; Company Limited (BLCL), Ashok Travels &amp; Tours (ATT), Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation Ltd (IRCTC),&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The finance ministry on Friday said that for all air travels where the government bears the cost, the tickets will be purchased from either of the three agents &#8212; Balmer Lawrie, Ashok Travels &amp; Tours, and IRCTC. In an office memorandum, the Department of Expenditure under the finance ministry said the decision has been taken in view of the disinvestment of Air India. &#8220;In all cases of air travel where the Government of India bears the cost of air passage, air tickets shall be purchased from the three authorised travel agents viz. Balmer Lawrie &amp; Company Limited (BLCL), Ashok Travels [&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":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-459655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459655","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=459655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}