{"id":499364,"date":"2022-06-20T09:25:56","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T03:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=499364"},"modified":"2022-06-20T09:55:48","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T04:25:48","slug":"govt-asks-employees-to-opt-for-lowest-air-fare-book-21-days-in-advance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/govt-asks-employees-to-opt-for-lowest-air-fare-book-21-days-in-advance\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt asks employees to opt for lowest air fare, book 21-days in advance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Finance Ministry has asked government employees to opt for &#8216;cheapest fare available&#8217; on their entitled travel class and book air tickets at least three weeks prior to their date of travel for tours and LTC, as it looks to cut down on unnecessary expenditure.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry further said that employees should book only one ticket for each leg of intended travel, make bookings even if approval of the tour programme is under process and also avoid &#8220;unnecessary cancellations&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Government employees are currently required to purchase air tickets only from three authorised travel agents &#8212; Balmer Lawrie &amp; Co, Ashok Travel &amp; Tours and IRCTC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Finance Ministry has asked government employees to opt for &#8216;cheapest fare available&#8217; on their entitled travel class and book air tickets at least three weeks prior to their date of travel for tours and LTC, as it looks to cut down on unnecessary expenditure. The Ministry further said that employees should book only one ticket for each leg of intended travel, make bookings even if approval of the tour programme is under process and also avoid &#8220;unnecessary cancellations&#8221;. Government employees are currently required to purchase air tickets only from three authorised travel agents &#8212; Balmer Lawrie &amp; Co, Ashok [&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-499364","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\/499364","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=499364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}