Leave without pay: Nacil has not buried the plan yet

New Delhi : After stirring a hornet’s nest with the announcement of its ‘leave without pay’ scheme, National Aviation Company of India Limited (NACIL) has said that it has no plans to bury the scheme.
While it may have put the brakes on its ambitious scheme to cut flab in the national carrier for the time being, an NACIL official told The Indian Express that the scheme is certainly not dead and will be taken up for consideration again some time in the future “when the time is right”.
Earlier, it had announced its intention of introducing the leave without pay scheme, the proposal for which had been drawn up and was awaiting the board’s approval. Under the scheme, NACIL employees could voluntarily apply for a leave of minimum period of three years, up to a maximum of five years. During this period, they were not to be eligible for their monthly salary while being able to avail some of the emoluments and benefits. Around 15,000 ‘non-operational’ employees of the state carrier were eligible to apply. The ‘leave without pay’ proposal had received sharp criticism from all quarters with petroleum minister Murli Deora lashing out at the NACIL chief at a meeting called by him to resolve the impasse between the Oil and civil aviation ministries.
It had introduced a similar scheme in 2002-03, which company sources said, didn’t find many takers.
05/11/08 Smita Aggarwal/Indain Express

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