The politically connected Adani Group made news in February by wining projects to develop, operate and maintain five airport projects at Lucknow, Thiruvananthapuram, Jaipur, Ahmedabad, Mangalore and Guwahati, on a Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) basis. This also made news because the Adani group has no previous experience in operating or managing airports.
A Right to Information (RTI) application, filed by activist Sanjay Shirodkar with the ministry of civil aviation on 19 March 2019, reveals that the projects have been announced without even waiting for Cabinet approval. The RTI response says, “The ministry is still in the process of obtaining approval of the cabinet for awarding the projects in this regard.’’
The reply further indicates that the finance ministry has not framed any rules that require a business house to have relevant prior experience before applying for the projects.
Mr Shirodkar, who has been relentlessly pursuing the issue of privatisation of airports through the last one and a half decade, filed an RTI application seeking a true copy of the approval granted by the minister of civil aviation for the five airport projects named above, to the Adani group.
In the same application, he also asked for a true copy of rules framed by the Central government in 2007 stating that tenders for sector-specific infrastructure projects do not require firms to have prior experience in that sector in order to participate.
03/04/19 Vinita Deshmukh/moneylife
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A Right to Information (RTI) application, filed by activist Sanjay Shirodkar with the ministry of civil aviation on 19 March 2019, reveals that the projects have been announced without even waiting for Cabinet approval. The RTI response says, “The ministry is still in the process of obtaining approval of the cabinet for awarding the projects in this regard.’’
The reply further indicates that the finance ministry has not framed any rules that require a business house to have relevant prior experience before applying for the projects.
Mr Shirodkar, who has been relentlessly pursuing the issue of privatisation of airports through the last one and a half decade, filed an RTI application seeking a true copy of the approval granted by the minister of civil aviation for the five airport projects named above, to the Adani group.
In the same application, he also asked for a true copy of rules framed by the Central government in 2007 stating that tenders for sector-specific infrastructure projects do not require firms to have prior experience in that sector in order to participate.
03/04/19 Vinita Deshmukh/moneylife
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