Air India privatisation: Sitharaman meets Puri ahead of first GoM meeting

Officials from finance and civil aviation ministries have been discussing this key issue for a while now

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri, along with senior bureaucrats, met on Wednesday, ahead of the meeting of the group of ministers (GoM) on the proposed privatisation of Air India on Thursday.

“This is the preliminary meeting. There is a meeting of the alternate mechanism scheduled tomorrow. All I can say is as we progress, you will be kept informed,” Puri told reporters in the Finance Ministry.

Puri added that the meeting of the Air India Specific Alternative Mechanism (AISAM) will discuss the airline’s debt position and issuance of the expression of interest, which will formally kick