Hardeep Singh Puri appointed as the new Civil Aviation Minister:
1 June 2019: Hardeep Singh Puri has been appointed as the new Civil Aviation Minister. Earlier, the post was held by Suresh Prabhu.
Puri has also served as the Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Housing and Urban Affairs from 2017. He also has wide experience in trade-related matters as he was a part of the World Trade Organization and has taken care of trade issues which should help him in his new role.
As the new Civil Aviation Minister, Puri urgently needs to look into matters like Jet Airways crisis, privatisation of Air India, liberalisation of the bilateral regime and relaxing the tax regime for the Maintenance Repair and Overhaul sector and quicker resolution of the inclusion of Aviation Turbine Fuel in the GST regime.
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