Mumbai: Opposing the government plan to hand over six leading Airports Authority of India-run airports to private players, its employees union has asked the government to hand over smaller airports to them and not those where huge investment has already been made.
The union has also threatened a nation-wide four-day relay hunger strike from October 22 as a part of their ongoing agitation, which started earlier this month by sporting black ribbons, to protest the privatisation move.
The aviation ministry recently decided to hand over the AAI-run Kolkata, Chennai, Ahmedabad, Lucknow, Jaipur and Guwahati airports to private companies despite opposition from the unions, after investing over Rs 5,000 crore of public funds for their modernisation.
"The government says it plans to develop a network of 100 smaller airports. So, why it should not ask private companies to develop them instead of giving the revenue generating ones to corporates," Airports Authority of India (AAI) Employees Union General Secretary Balraj Singh Ahlawat told PTI.
29/09/13 PTI/Business Standard
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The union has also threatened a nation-wide four-day relay hunger strike from October 22 as a part of their ongoing agitation, which started earlier this month by sporting black ribbons, to protest the privatisation move.
The aviation ministry recently decided to hand over the AAI-run Kolkata, Chennai, Ahmedabad, Lucknow, Jaipur and Guwahati airports to private companies despite opposition from the unions, after investing over Rs 5,000 crore of public funds for their modernisation.
"The government says it plans to develop a network of 100 smaller airports. So, why it should not ask private companies to develop them instead of giving the revenue generating ones to corporates," Airports Authority of India (AAI) Employees Union General Secretary Balraj Singh Ahlawat told PTI.
29/09/13 PTI/Business Standard
