Most AAI staff spurn Delhi airport co offer

New Delhi: Only 9 per cent of the over 2,300 employees of the Airports Authority of India (AAI) working in Delhi airport have opted for a voluntary scheme to join the GMR group-promoted Delhi International Airport Ltd (DIAL), the public-private joint venture that is modernising the airport.
This is despite the fact that the AAI employees who joined the new company, according to DIAL, have received an average 75 per cent salary increase based on a scheme that was offered to all the employees at the start of this year. The average age of those who accepted the offer is between 30 and 35.
Confirming the development, a DIAL spokesperson said: “Only 155-odd AAI employees who were in AAI are now working for DIAL.” AAI did not release the rest who accepted the offer.
The spokesperson added that the contract with AAI required DIAL to make the offer to 60 per cent of the employees by May 2009, but the company extended the offer to all employees this year.
26/10/07 Surajeet Das Gupta/Business Standard

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Categories: Airports Oct 2007