Chennai: A key infrastructure development (KID) cell has been created by the government to push forward and speed up a public-private partnership mode to professionally manage “certain identified” airports. Chennai may just be the first of the selected airports, officials of the Airports Authority of India and the civil aviation ministry, said.
For air passengers, this could mean better facilities at the airport, said a ministry official. “I’m not at all happy with the way Chennai airport is maintained. Also, personnel of the Central Industrial Security Force and AAI officials are sometimes at loggerheads. Because of this, I was even denied entry to the airport once, and briefly locked up at a point inside the airport,” he said.
The cell, comprising five AAI members will function as the nodal point to bring in the PPP mode, and will also perform groundwork for the ministry. Another official said a similar cell was formed when Mumbai and Delhi airports were privatised.
08/06/13 The Hindu
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For air passengers, this could mean better facilities at the airport, said a ministry official. “I’m not at all happy with the way Chennai airport is maintained. Also, personnel of the Central Industrial Security Force and AAI officials are sometimes at loggerheads. Because of this, I was even denied entry to the airport once, and briefly locked up at a point inside the airport,” he said.
The cell, comprising five AAI members will function as the nodal point to bring in the PPP mode, and will also perform groundwork for the ministry. Another official said a similar cell was formed when Mumbai and Delhi airports were privatised.
08/06/13 The Hindu
