Left parties urge PM to set up probe into Air India losses

New Delhi: Left parties today urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to set up a probe into how Air India turned into a loss-making entity after merger and demanded restoration of recognition of two major unions.
A delegation of MPs of the four parties today met the Prime Minister and also demanded that 55 employees, whose services were terminated after a strike in May, be reinstated with full back wages and benefits and all those suspended be allowed to resume duties.
"A high-powered Committee should be constituted to enquire as to how the two profit-making public sector undertakings -- Air India and (erstwhile) Indian Airlines, had become a loss-making company after merger," a memorandum submitted by the Left MPs said.
The MPs, led by Basudeb Acharia, Sitaram Yechury (CPI-M), Gurudas Dasgupta (CPI), Narahari Mahato (Forward Bloc) and Manohar Tirkey (RSP), demanded implementation of the recommendations of two parliamentary committees to bring the two airlines running domestic and international flights under a single holding company.
28/07/10 Economic Times

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Categories: NACIL Jul 2010