Monday, December 23, 2013

AAI, state at odds over footing security bill of airports

Lucknow: The issue of footing the bill for providing security at the eight new airports to be set up in Uttar Pradesh has put the Airport Authority of India (AAI) and the state government at loggerheads.
The AAI wants the state to bear the expenditure on deployment of Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) at airports for 10 years —- something that the state government is no mood to do.
According to sources, AAI has proposed that to collect the Passenger Services Fee (PSF) on domestic tickets at these airports and provide it to state government for payment of salary of the CISF personnel deployed there.
24/12/13 Lalmani Verma/Indian Express
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