'This government will end after five years, but farmers will not end after five years.' 'This is the source of our confidence.'
Some sectors like aviation, hospitality, travel and tourism, and automobile have witnessed zero cash flow since the lockdown began.
PIA management had signed an agreement with Saudi Airlines and Eithad Airways as well as private airlines, Air Blue and Shaheen Airlines, to facilitate travel by its passengers with confirmed bookings.
Inviting private sector in Indian Railways is a good idea.
'Has the time come to devise Version 2 of ad hoc T-bills?' 'In return, the government must agree to privatise all but five or six banks.' 'If something like this is not done, we will have governments going on the rampage, with increasing frequency,' says T C A Srinivasa Raghavan.
Does IAS officers' work go unappreciated, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
Out of the total amount, Rs 17,359.77 crore is aircraft loan, while Rs 31,517.04 crore is working capital loan.
Initiated move to privatise Air India, but reports on poverty and cast census remained unfinished
This was a joke narrated by Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh when he reiterated his 'personal' view on privatising Air India.
Corporatisation of NHAI was one of the achievements of the NDA govt.
If IOC is not allowed to run its own affairs, then we can see it close down in the next 10 to 15 years, warns Sudhir Bisht.
'National assets, created over the years through tax-payers's money, should not be handed over to business houses at throwaway prices.'
She said that despite government scheme and initiatives ranging from roads to agriculture, housing, scholarships to electricity benefiting lives of people, a false narrative was being created by the opposition that the government was working for cronies.
There had been sufficient warnings on Air India's state but the government failed to take action, former executive director Jitender Bhargava said.
When the Centre tries to encroach upon the subjects that are under the prerogative of the state, or where the centre tries to evade from any responsibility guaranteed to a state through a constitutional provision/obligation, it poses a threat to federalism.
Reforms under the Modi government will maintain a slow and tentative pace, constantly wary of political opposition. It may not be reform by stealth, but it is reform on the quiet, says A K Bhattacharya.
Since public sector banks are unlikely to be privatised soon, the aim has to be to make as many of them perform as is possible.
Protesting farmers owing allegiance to different farmers' bodies blocked state and national highways at several places on Saturday, causing inconvenience to commuters.
If the government is asking a maximum price for Air India but asks to keep old personnel, it will not match.
'Mr Modi has a huge opportunity before him.' 'Whether he grabs it the way Mrs Gandhi did in 1969 or squanders it as he did in 2014 will determine his economic legacy,' notes T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan.
The government is open to giving 100 per cent stake to private parties in six select airports, including Kolkata and Chennai.
'It is very clear that Air India cannot be managed by the government.' 'Air India should be run as a separate profit entity.'
Officials say a fall in global oil prices will reduce the government's subsidy burden, giving it a greater chance of hitting its ambitious fiscal deficit target of 4.1 percent of gross domestic product in the fiscal year to March.
Heaving a sigh of relief, the apex association of Public Sector Enterprises, SCOPE, on Friday commended the Centre for shelving privatisation of 13 PSUs.
The government on Wednesday ruled out privatisation of postal services but said franchising post office facilities was an option that the department will pursue in future to expand the postal network.
Maharashtra has the opportunity to solve all these problems by voting for the Congress and NCP, he said.
'We will resist it.' 'Farmers will not let that happen.'
Tamal Bandyopadhyay offers some unsolicited advice for a government wh,ich came to power, with brute majority and the nation's pragmatic chief money man.
In an oblique attack on the United Progressive Alliance government, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said there was lack of trust in governance in the country, which poses a "grave danger" to democracy.
'You just make the bureaucracy honest and make them function with integrity.' 'Everything will be taken care of after that.' 'But this Mission Karmayogi does not even mention these two words -- honesty and integrity.'
Private airports are much better but because of poor regulation, the tariffs have shot up.
'We will see a kind of disaster which the country has not seen in the last 100 years.'
Several members of Parliament have opposed privatisation of public sector oil firms like IOC and have asked the government not to seek a review of the Supreme Court verdict halting privatisation of HPCL and BPCL, Petroleum Minister Ram Naik said.
The relay hunger strike by airport employees, owing allegiance to Airport Authority Employees Union, to protest the privatisation of Delhi and Mumbai airports, entered the second day on Friday.\n\n\n\n
