Chandigarh: With aviation companies refusing to give choppers on hire as the cash-strapped Punjab government owes the operators around Rs 4.50 crore in arrears, Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal have been grounded since the January 30 polls.
The state aviation department has been in a fix for the past three weeks as its attempts to hire a helicopter for the Badals has yielded no success with aviation companies refusing to give the choppers till the arrears are cleared. The money, which the government owes, is for services it obtained from the aviation firms between September and December last year when the model code of conduct came into force.
Challenger Aviation, the company through which the state government had been hiring choppers, has written to the Punjab government urging it to release the money immediately as it had hired choppers on behalf of the state government from Global Vetra and India Fly Safe Aviation, both of whom have written to Challenger demanding the money. The government has to also make payments to Span Air, Air Charter Services and DLF Aviation for using their choppers.
01/03/12 Harpreet Bajwa/Indian Express
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