New Delhi: CPI leader D Raja has asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to instruct the Civil Aviation Ministry to "avoid the talk of privatisation" of Air India and airports and take steps to help passengers instead.
Terming as "alarming" reports on the issue, he said, "Such proposals conveyed to the media create demoralisation among the employees and also a sense of futility in trying to make Air India a viable air carrier."
"While equity was not being infused in Air India in accordance with the turnaround plan, the Airports Authority of India (AAI) is also being systematically undermined," he said in a letter to the Prime Minister.
Instead of bringing a civil aviation policy even after so many years, the government was "undertaking privatisation in bits and pieces without taking Parliament into confidence," he said.
15/10/13 PTI/Economic Times
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Terming as "alarming" reports on the issue, he said, "Such proposals conveyed to the media create demoralisation among the employees and also a sense of futility in trying to make Air India a viable air carrier."
"While equity was not being infused in Air India in accordance with the turnaround plan, the Airports Authority of India (AAI) is also being systematically undermined," he said in a letter to the Prime Minister.
Instead of bringing a civil aviation policy even after so many years, the government was "undertaking privatisation in bits and pieces without taking Parliament into confidence," he said.
15/10/13 PTI/Economic Times
