Air India on a spree of hiring back tainted officers

Mumbai: Reappointing tainted officials on contract has become a norm at national carrier Air India (AI) which is reeling under losses thanks to the contribution of some of them. The airline has taken back another tainted officer, executive director P Eswarchandran, though there is a central vigilance commission (CVC) report on him on how he wasted crores on its hotel property in Delhi.
The Indian Commercial Pilots Association (ICPA) has demanded that an investigation should be done in the appointment of officiating executives that are junior and have tainted records. But the national carrier is on a spree of hiring tainted officials in spite of the scams that they have alleged to have committed.
In August last year, the chief technical examiner of CVC conducted an audit of all civil contracts in public sector undertakings (PSUs).
The team visited Hotel Centaur, Delhi, which belongs to Hotel Corporation of India Limited (HCIL), a hotel division of Air India.
The hotel was undergoing an upgrade of 100 out of the 400 rooms and the contract was being supervised by Eswarchandran who was the executive vice-president of civil works & properties for AI in 2007.
07/05/11 Naveeta Singh/Daily News & Analysis

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