New Delhi: Over 50 employees of Airports Authority of India (AAI) posted at Birsi Airport in Gondia have sought special allowance for working in the Maoist-prone and tribal area.
The airport falls under left-wing extremist stronghold and is a sensitive area as per the Maharashtra government circular issued in 2005, but AAI is yet to accede the demand.
Gondia is hometown and the constituency of former civil aviation minister Praful Patel, and the airport - catering primarily to training facilities - was constructed in 2009.
Birsi airport, located at a back-of-beyond area, doesn't even have a school in its vicinity. And AAI employees are compelled to admit their children to central school located in Balaghat, Madhya Pradesh.
11/05/12 Times of India
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