New Delhi: A parliamentary panel has asked the government to explain whether public interest was being served by the private-public partnership in the development and running of Delhi's IGI airport.
The Public Accounts Committee, in a latest report, virtually charged the government with enabling a private party (GMR) to benefit out of its partnership with state-run Airports Authority of India (AAI) to develop and manage the airport.
It asked the government to furnish the total earnings of the Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL) and that of the AAI to show "whether public interest was substantially sub- served" by the agreement with GMR-led DIAL.
The 22-member PAC, headed by senior BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi, also questioned the "unilateral right" of DIAL to extend the concession period for 30 more years and manage the airport for 60 years.
02/02/14 PTI/Financial Express
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The Public Accounts Committee, in a latest report, virtually charged the government with enabling a private party (GMR) to benefit out of its partnership with state-run Airports Authority of India (AAI) to develop and manage the airport.
It asked the government to furnish the total earnings of the Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL) and that of the AAI to show "whether public interest was substantially sub- served" by the agreement with GMR-led DIAL.
The 22-member PAC, headed by senior BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi, also questioned the "unilateral right" of DIAL to extend the concession period for 30 more years and manage the airport for 60 years.
02/02/14 PTI/Financial Express
