Thiruvananthapuram: The Ministry of Civil Aviation’s (MoCA) move to privatise the Trivandrum International Airport is likely to get entangled in legal battle as the Airport Authority Employees’ Union (AAEU) has decided to challenge privatisation decision in the High Court.
The state government has formed a ‘special-purpose vehicle’ to keep the airport in the public sector,
A delegation of union representatives from here the other day met Jayant Sinha, Union Minister of State for Civil Aviation, and requested him to drop the airport from the list of the airports put up for sale in the country.
The minister, however, refused to intervene in the matter, saying the Union cabinet took the decision to privatise the airports. S Ajith Kumar, secretary of AAEU Trivandrum, said the employees union has given a complaint to the Central Labour Commissioner, who has called a meeting on January 7 in New Delhi. If the meeting fails to reach a consensus, the Union will challenge the privatisation decision at the High Court, he said.
The request for proposal prepared by the MoCA ahead of the privatisation has almost nipped the chances off companies from Kerala from taking part in the bidding. According to Jacob K Phillip, aviation expert, who studied the RFP, the pre-qualification (PQ) criteria listed in the request for proposal included a net worth Rs 1,000 crore as the first pre-qualification to take part in the bidding.
24/12/18 Dhinesh Kallungal/New Indian Express
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The state government has formed a ‘special-purpose vehicle’ to keep the airport in the public sector,
A delegation of union representatives from here the other day met Jayant Sinha, Union Minister of State for Civil Aviation, and requested him to drop the airport from the list of the airports put up for sale in the country.
The minister, however, refused to intervene in the matter, saying the Union cabinet took the decision to privatise the airports. S Ajith Kumar, secretary of AAEU Trivandrum, said the employees union has given a complaint to the Central Labour Commissioner, who has called a meeting on January 7 in New Delhi. If the meeting fails to reach a consensus, the Union will challenge the privatisation decision at the High Court, he said.
The request for proposal prepared by the MoCA ahead of the privatisation has almost nipped the chances off companies from Kerala from taking part in the bidding. According to Jacob K Phillip, aviation expert, who studied the RFP, the pre-qualification (PQ) criteria listed in the request for proposal included a net worth Rs 1,000 crore as the first pre-qualification to take part in the bidding.
24/12/18 Dhinesh Kallungal/New Indian Express
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