Air India violating CVC norms on cabin-crew accommodation: BKS

Mumbai: Shiv Sena-backed Bharatiya Kamgar Sena (BKS) on Wednesday alleged that national air-carrier, Air India, was violating the Central Vigilance Commission's (CVC) guidelines on the selection of hotels for its cabin crew.
"The procedure followed for hotel selection is in gross violation of CVC guidelines," BKS' General Secretary and President of the All India Cabin Crew Association, Kiran Pawaskar, said in a press release here.The Air India management was also violating the bilateral agreements of 1988 and 1995 signed with the AICCA, he alleged.
Now cabin-crew were being put up at motels instead of hotels and in areas unsafe for women, Pawaskar alleged. "No AICCA representative is allowed inspection (of the accommodation sites) despite the bilateral agreements," he said.
Earlier, Pawaksar along with representatives from AICCA, a section of the Air India Employees Union, Air India Service Engineers Association and three Sena MPs held a meeting with Union Civil Aviation Minister, Praful Patel, in Delhi and apprised him of the situation prevailing a year after the merger of Air India and Indian into one entity.
27/08/08 PTI/Economic Times

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