NEW DELHI: The CPI(M) has said the Centre's decision to handover management and operation of Ahmedabad and Jaipur airports to Singapore's Changi Airport group was against a Parliamentary panel's recommendations.
It has demanded that the details of an MoU signed between the AAI and Singapore Corporation Enterprise (SCE) be made public.
Earlier, the Congress had described as "surpising and shocking" the decision to open up the two government-run airports to the foreign player.
"I was the chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee, which submitted a report that was accepted by Parliament.....that except for joint venture in completely Greenfield airports, no management of the airports or even joint venture with foreign airport authorities or foreign players in the aviation field should be permitted. This was the opposition then and it's the opposition now," CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury told PTI.
State-run Airports Authority of India (AAI) and SCE had, during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Singapore last month, signed a Memorandum of Understanding for cooperation in a number of mutually agreed areas of civil aviation services and airport management beginning with Jaipur and Ahmedabad airports.
13/12/15 PTI/The Economic Times
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It has demanded that the details of an MoU signed between the AAI and Singapore Corporation Enterprise (SCE) be made public.
Earlier, the Congress had described as "surpising and shocking" the decision to open up the two government-run airports to the foreign player.
"I was the chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee, which submitted a report that was accepted by Parliament.....that except for joint venture in completely Greenfield airports, no management of the airports or even joint venture with foreign airport authorities or foreign players in the aviation field should be permitted. This was the opposition then and it's the opposition now," CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury told PTI.
State-run Airports Authority of India (AAI) and SCE had, during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Singapore last month, signed a Memorandum of Understanding for cooperation in a number of mutually agreed areas of civil aviation services and airport management beginning with Jaipur and Ahmedabad airports.
13/12/15 PTI/The Economic Times
