{"id":231767,"date":"2023-12-29T00:26:46","date_gmt":"2023-12-28T18:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=231767"},"modified":"2023-12-29T00:26:46","modified_gmt":"2023-12-28T18:56:46","slug":"mlaya-govt-to-hire-chopper-for-vip-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/12\/29\/mlaya-govt-to-hire-chopper-for-vip-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"M\u2019laya govt to hire chopper for VIP movement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>SHILLONG, 28 Dec:<\/strong> Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma on Thursday said that his government plans to hire a twin-engine chopper exclusively for the movements of VIPs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The VIP chopper service is valid initially for three months.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;It is necessary sometimes. It saves a lot of time. Movements need to be done by senior leaders. Keeping fiscal constraints (the state is facing), we are not procuring a chopper but will be hiring on an hourly usage basis,&#8221; the chief minister said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said, &#8220;We are giving out a tender for a short-term lease and we pay on an hourly basis. That is the most efficient way and will not incur much financial burden.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The chief minister&#8217;s statement came in the wake of reports that the state government plans to procure a chopper for VIP movements.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said that the state government has come up with a tender to hire chopper services and not for procuring a chopper because that in itself is very expensive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said also that the normal sorties for the Shillong-Tura-Guwahati route used by visitors get disturbed when a VVIP takes the choppers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The transport department had on 22 December floated an advertisement, requesting a proposal for wet lease of one twin-engine helicopter with a seating capacity of 4-5 passengers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The last date for submission for the proposal is 2 January, 2024, while the tender will be opened on 16 January, following which the winning bidder will have to make the chopper available within five days for the government&#8217;s usage. (PTI)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SHILLONG, 28 Dec: Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma on Thursday said that his government plans to hire a twin-engine chopper exclusively for the movements of VIPs. The VIP chopper service is valid initially for three months. &#8220;It is necessary sometimes. It saves a lot of time. Movements need to be done by senior leaders. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-231767","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-north-east"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231767","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=231767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}