Mumbai: Turning down an Airports Authority of India (AAI) proposal to house them in a run-down hangar at Juhu airport, about 30 air traffic controllers and 20 AAI officers have stayed put in their residential staff quarters.
The AAI sent them notices last week to vacate their quarters in 10 days, failing which they would be liable for action. It also sent notices to 30 controllers, the junior-most of the lot, and ordered them to vacate their quarters and move to that hangar.
Given that the controllers carry out critical job functions and that they do extra shifts to cover up for manpower shortage at the Mumbai air traffic control, experts said the tension over accommodation should be defused amicably if the AAI intends to keep the airspace over the city safe.
The AAI, faced with a shortage of staff quarters, sent notices to over 50 staff, ordering them to move to the Shobha Singh hangar, a dilapidated structure from June 22 onwards. TOI had reported on June 28 about the pathetic conditions in the hangar, where the AAI had rigged up cubicles for accommodation. Under the plan, two controllers will share a 100 sq ft cubicle. The hangar, which gets inundated during rains, is 10 metres from the Indamar hangar, where there is a deafening noise day and night from aircraft engine repair and maintenance work. Since AAI's officers refused to shift, it has now told the juniors to do so.
27/07/16 Manju V/Times of India
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The AAI sent them notices last week to vacate their quarters in 10 days, failing which they would be liable for action. It also sent notices to 30 controllers, the junior-most of the lot, and ordered them to vacate their quarters and move to that hangar.
Given that the controllers carry out critical job functions and that they do extra shifts to cover up for manpower shortage at the Mumbai air traffic control, experts said the tension over accommodation should be defused amicably if the AAI intends to keep the airspace over the city safe.
The AAI, faced with a shortage of staff quarters, sent notices to over 50 staff, ordering them to move to the Shobha Singh hangar, a dilapidated structure from June 22 onwards. TOI had reported on June 28 about the pathetic conditions in the hangar, where the AAI had rigged up cubicles for accommodation. Under the plan, two controllers will share a 100 sq ft cubicle. The hangar, which gets inundated during rains, is 10 metres from the Indamar hangar, where there is a deafening noise day and night from aircraft engine repair and maintenance work. Since AAI's officers refused to shift, it has now told the juniors to do so.
27/07/16 Manju V/Times of India
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