UPA paved way for crash-landing of civil aviation: BJP

New Delhi: Alleging a negative growth in civil aviation, BJP today charged the UPA government with paving way for "crash-landing" of the sector during its rule.
"By choice, the government has jettisoned competition while talking of consolidation and paved an absolute path for crash-landing of civil aviation sector," party spokesperson Rajiv Pratap Rudy told reporters here.
Rudy said lack of any new incentives and policy support in the last couple of years has led the aviation industry into a negative growth regime. The era of low cost airlines and cheap fares introduced by the NDA regime has been deliberately demolished, he claimed.
"The claim of the government that high international prices were primarily responsible for high fares is outlandish and unacceptable. The fault was in the government failing to address core issue of reforms initiated earlier in the sector and abysmal policy incentives to the industry," Rudy alleged.
He termed the government's decision to merge Indian Airlines and Air India as an "outright disaster" where the amalgamated entity NACIL is gasping for a bail out.
27/02/09 SamayLive

To Read the News in full at Source, Click the Headline

Categories: Indian Aviation- In General Feb 2009