{"id":464551,"date":"2022-01-28T12:08:37","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T06:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=464551"},"modified":"2022-01-28T12:08:37","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T06:38:37","slug":"20-years-later-indias-cpse-privatisation-off-to-maharaja-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/20-years-later-indias-cpse-privatisation-off-to-maharaja-start\/","title":{"rendered":"20 years later: India&#8217;s CPSE privatisation off to &#8216;Maharaja&#8217; start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: After a hiatus of nearly two decades, the government&#8217;s programme to privatise state-owned firms restarted with the handing over of debt-laden national carrier Air India to the Tata Group.<\/p>\n<p>With the new owner shelling out Rs 18,000 crore for the buyout of the &#8216;Maharaja&#8217;, this would be the highest-ever amount garnered through privatisation, and is even more than the cumulative sum mopped up through strategic sales from 1999-00 to 2003-04.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: After a hiatus of nearly two decades, the government&#8217;s programme to privatise state-owned firms restarted with the handing over of debt-laden national carrier Air India to the Tata Group. With the new owner shelling out Rs 18,000 crore for the buyout of the &#8216;Maharaja&#8217;, this would be the highest-ever amount garnered through privatisation, and is even more than the cumulative sum mopped up through strategic sales from 1999-00 to 2003-04.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[208,130,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-464551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464551","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}