New Delhi: For the past four years, Air India (AI) has been sleeping over the demand of the ICPA - a body that represents the pilots of the erstwhile Indian Airlines (IA), which was merged with AI to form the National Aviation Company of India in 2007 - to bring the pilots' salaries on a par with those of their AI colleagues.
Till now, to stop the ICPA from going on strike, the former civil aviation minister, Praful Patel, had given assurances to the association that its demands would be met, an IA pilot claimed.
The parliamentary committee on public sector undertakings, in 2010, blamed the UPA government for having forced the merger of the two carriers that dragged the airlines into financial and administrative mess.
"The so-called merger is a kind of marriage between incompatible individuals having wide variances with hardly any meeting ground," V. Kishore Chandra S. Deo, House panel chairman, had stated in his report. The report had suggested a de-merger - into Nacil-IA and Nacil-AI. It was only recently that a committee was constituted to look into the issue of the integration of staff of the erstwhile IA and AI into Air India Limited.
The civil aviation ministry said the committee, chaired by Justice (retd) D. M. Dharmadhikari, held its meeting on Wednesday and decided to invite written suggestions from all unions, associations, individuals and groups of employees within the erstwhile companies.
28/04/11 Ajmer Singh/India Today
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