New Delhi: Condemning government's decision to hand over Kolkata and Chennai airports in private hands, CPI(M) on Monday said it would "jeopardise" the employees' future and demanded immediate scrapping of the privatisation plans.
"The central government should immediately scrap this privatisation plan," the CPI(M) Politburo, which met here for two days, said in a statement, criticising the decision to hand over the running of the two metro airports in Chennai and Kolkata owned by the Airports Authority of India (AAI) to private parties.
The government has decided to hand over the functioning of six airports -- Chennai, Kolkata, Lucknow, Ahmedabad, Jodhpur and Guwahati -- to private operators to run them under public-private partnership on a revenue-share model.
Strongly opposing the plan, the CPI(M) said that AAI had built the new terminals at both the airports and public funded airports were now to be handed over to private companies.
07/10/13 ZeeNews
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"The central government should immediately scrap this privatisation plan," the CPI(M) Politburo, which met here for two days, said in a statement, criticising the decision to hand over the running of the two metro airports in Chennai and Kolkata owned by the Airports Authority of India (AAI) to private parties.
The government has decided to hand over the functioning of six airports -- Chennai, Kolkata, Lucknow, Ahmedabad, Jodhpur and Guwahati -- to private operators to run them under public-private partnership on a revenue-share model.
Strongly opposing the plan, the CPI(M) said that AAI had built the new terminals at both the airports and public funded airports were now to be handed over to private companies.
07/10/13 ZeeNews
