Govt. 'forced' AAI to sign airports agreements: CPI(M) leader

New Delhi: A CPI(M) leader has accused the government of "breach of trust" by "forcing" the Airports Authority of India (AAI) to sign agreements with private parties on modernisation of Delhi and Mumbai airports.
Maintaining that a Tripartite Committee comprising representatives of AAI, its employees and Civil Aviation Ministry was set up for modernisation of airports, former MP Dipankar Mukherjee said even before this panel could discuss the substantive issue concerning the two metro airports, "the government forced the AAI management to sign the shareholders agreement with two private parties, M/S GMR and M/S GVK".
"This conspiratorial action behind the back of the employees exposes not only the breach of trust by the government but also its total lack of public accountability in handing over profitable public assets to a chosen few", he said in an article in the latest issue of CPI(M) organ 'People's Democracy'.
The "much-publicised" concept of world-class airports has nothing to do with aeronautical services, but was centered on "what is being eyed as non-aeronautical revenue".
29/04/06 PTI/The Hindu

To Read the News in full at Source, Click the Headline