Airport parking free for netas

Hyderabad: For babus and netas used to freebies, here is some good news. They will continue to enjoy free parking status for their official cars at Shamshabad international airport. In fact, a free parking lot to accommodate up to 50 cars is being created at the new airport. Not only this, a separate facility is being readied to accommodate vehicles of slogan-shouting chelas who accompany their netas to the airport.
To avoid paying parking fees, government cars stride up and occupy the lane right in front of the airport terminal at the present Begumpet airport. But while Begumpet is an Airport Authority of India (AAI) and thus government-run facility, Shamshabad will be a private operation.
"Thus one would have expected that this freebie would be withdrawn for government cars," an analyst said. However, an official of the GMR group which will run the airport said that the sop would be continued because the government does not have any facility to reimburse its officers who go to the airport in their official cars for work or otherwise.
21/02/08 Times of India

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Categories: airports Feb 2008, New Feb 2008