Monday, July 01, 2013

Concern on creation of 'landlord airports'

The employees and union leaders of State-owned airport operator Airports Authority of India (AAI) are an anxious lot these days. The news coming in from Delhi — the move to revive the Key Infrastructure Development (KID) cell to take forward the modernisation of Chennai and Kolkata airports and the announcement made at a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on finalising infrastructure targets for 2013-14 — have apparently unnerved them.
At the Prime Minister’s meeting held in Delhi on Friday it was decided that airport operations and maintenance through Public-Private Partnership (PPP) contracts will be introduced in some AAI airports, including Chennai, Kolkata, Lucknow, Guwahati, Jaipur and Ahmedabad.
01/07/13 TE Raja Simhan/Ayan Pramanik/Business Line
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