New Delhi: Air India's chairman and managing director takes home a lighter pay packet than some of the clerical staff, an anomaly that underscores the skewed salary structure at the struggling state-owned airline. The CMD's total pay packet of Rs 1.30 lakh a month amounts to a take-home salary of about Rs 80,000 for the 1985-batch bureaucrat on deputation.
Similarly, the joint managing director, an officer of the Indian Revenue Service, takes home about Rs 70,000 of his total monthly salary of about Rs 1.10 lakh. In contrast, some of the debt-laden carrier's 500-odd clerical staff, who draw between Rs 60,000 and Rs 1.10 lakh a month, excluding emoluments, get more than the top two executives.
The Dharmadhikari Committee on pay parity found that about another one-fifth of the airline's 28,000 workforce, comprising unskilled employees such as loaders at the airport, car drivers and peons, takes home between Rs 32,000 and Rs 50,000 a month.
13/01/13 Anindya Upadhyay/Economic Times
