{"id":135364,"date":"2020-08-24T02:11:56","date_gmt":"2020-08-23T20:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=135364"},"modified":"2020-08-24T02:11:56","modified_gmt":"2020-08-23T20:41:56","slug":"richo-questions-privatization-of-airports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/08\/24\/richo-questions-privatization-of-airports\/","title":{"rendered":"Richo questions privatization of airports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, Aug 23:<\/strong> Taking strong exception to the privatization of the airports in Guwahati (Assam), Jaipur (Rajasthan) and Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala), NECC general secretary Padi Richo in a press statement on Sunday questioned why &#8220;valuable infrastructures created by the Congress government&#8221; were being privatized by the BJP-led union government.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As per the Centre&#8217;s decision, the three airports have been mortgaged to the Adani Enterprise Ltd, the flagship entity of the Adani Group, for 50 years, to help the airports become self-reliant.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Richo claimed that the move proved the government&#8217;s incapability to manage even profitably running public sector undertakings like these three airports, which were under the Airports Authority of India.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;If such moves continued that too privatizing lone international airport of Northeast India, who knows our country could be mortgaged in the name of self-reliance too,&#8221; Richo said, adding that mortgaging the airports &#8220;is humiliating for this vast nation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He also said that the central government &#8220;has been totally incapable of managing finance, for which Arunachal Pradesh lost Rs 2,600 crore in 2019-20 fiscal year, Rs 850 crore during first quarter of 2020-21 (April, May and June) and another Rs 950 crore loss is expected in second quarter (July to September).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;This type of financial bungling had never taken place during the Congress-led UPA regime,&#8221; he claimed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, Aug 23: Taking strong exception to the privatization of the airports in Guwahati (Assam), Jaipur (Rajasthan) and Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala), NECC general secretary Padi Richo in a press statement on Sunday questioned why &#8220;valuable infrastructures created by the Congress government&#8221; were being privatized by the BJP-led union government. As per the Centre&#8217;s decision, the three [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-135364","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}