VRS may be offered to 5,000 employees at Delhi, Mumbai airports

New Delhi/Mumbai: The GMR and GVK groups, which are modernising the airports at Delhi and Mumbai respectively, may have to pay for those employees of Airports Authority of India (AAI) who decide not to take up employment being offered by the new private sector consortium running the airports.
Currently, only about 8 per cent of the total AAI workforce in Delhi and about 6 per cent of the workforce in Mumbai has taken up the employment offers made by the private sector companies running the airports.
This is below the 60 per cent workforce absorption that the private sector companies were to complete within three years of taking over the airports, said an official source.
However, a spokesperson of Mumbai International Airport Ltd (MIAL) told Business Line that under the OMDA (operation, management and development agreement), the private companies were just supposed to make a job offer to 60 per cent of the AAI workforce.
He added that around 100 more people could join MIAL between now and May 2009, not as part of the job offer but on individual basis. MIAL is a joint venture between the GVK-SA consortium and AAI.
The GMR group had agreed to take all AAI employees working at Delhi airport, although only 8 per cent of the workforce accepted.
21/09/08 Business Line

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Categories: Airports Sep 2008