New Delhi:: The airport development fee collected by the company that operates the Delhi international airport, a sum of Rs 1,481.72 crore, should be recovered as the levy was illegal, a Communist Party of India (Marxist) legislator has urged both the Prime Minister and the civil aviation minister.
GMR Group-controlled Delhi International Airport Ltd has been levying an ADF of 200 per departing domestic passenger and Rs 1,300 per departing international passenger since 2009, when the central government approved the additional charge. Last month, the Delhi High Court asked DIAL to discontinue the levy as an appropriate charge was yet to be fixed by the airports regulator.
"It is clear that the DIAL has collected Rs 1481.72 crore illegally and they are not eligible to keep the same amount with them. The huge money which has been collected from the passengers should not be parked with the company which violated all legal and administrative principles. So, I request the government to take immediate steps to recover Rs 1481.72 crore from DIAL's account to governments exchequer," Rajya Sabha MP KN Balagopal said in his letter to the PM and the civil aviation minister.
11/08/11 Sruthijith KK/Economic Times
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