As the process of privatisation of four airports: Jaipur, Lucknow, Guwahati and Ahmedabad have gathered pace in the last few weeks, doubts have cropped up over Chennai and Kolkata airports’ privatisation being pushed back due to lack of cooperation from state governments and strong objections from their respective workers' unions. The plan to privatise six airports including Chennai and Kolkata was moved by the former aviation minister Ajit Singh just before the UPA's tenure came to a close. A consultant closely associated with the parleys for airport privatisation through PPP told CNBC-TV18 that Chennai and Kolkata may be dropped initially from the list of six airports to be privatised. One large private airport developer also spoke of the PPP process being initiated for only four airports now. However, a final decision on airports to be included in the PPP process is yet to be taken, a board meeting of the airports authority of India (AAI) is scheduled this week to discuss the issue.
05/08/14 Shereen Bhan/CNBC-TV18
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