Thiruchi: Even after being recognised as an international airport, the Tiruchi Airport lacks a pre-paid taxi service much to the discomfiture of first-time visitors and tourists to the city.
A proposal to introduce the service that seemed to have gathered shape last year still remains a non-starter. Although Transport department officials held a couple of rounds of talks with the taxi drivers and operators at the airport then, the move has strangely been caught in procedural wrangles. Sources at the airport now say that they have requested the State police to run the service and have sent a request to the city police authorities. An airport official said they have already written to the city police who in turn have taken up the matter with their higher authorities in Chennai for approval. “A request was made to us and it was suggested that 10 per cent of the revenue generated from the service can be given to the police. Such matters require clearance of the government and we have asked for the same,” said an officer of the city police. But he pointed out that the manpower of the State police is already stretched and the Central Industrial Security Force, which is in-charge of the airport security, could as well be asked to help in running the service.
05/07/13 S. Ganesan/The Hindu
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A proposal to introduce the service that seemed to have gathered shape last year still remains a non-starter. Although Transport department officials held a couple of rounds of talks with the taxi drivers and operators at the airport then, the move has strangely been caught in procedural wrangles. Sources at the airport now say that they have requested the State police to run the service and have sent a request to the city police authorities. An airport official said they have already written to the city police who in turn have taken up the matter with their higher authorities in Chennai for approval. “A request was made to us and it was suggested that 10 per cent of the revenue generated from the service can be given to the police. Such matters require clearance of the government and we have asked for the same,” said an officer of the city police. But he pointed out that the manpower of the State police is already stretched and the Central Industrial Security Force, which is in-charge of the airport security, could as well be asked to help in running the service.
05/07/13 S. Ganesan/The Hindu
