Mumbai: Air India has issued a showcause notice to a joint general manager deputed to the civil aviation regulator for accepting a gross salary of Rs 2.8 crore in four years from the debt-ridden airline though he was not working for it.
Capt Atul Chandra, the chief flight operations inspector of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), has disputed the amount quoted by Air India. Since 2015, airline officials on deputation to DGCA get paid by the regulator, and not the airline.
Air India was unaware that it was paying an officer no longer working for it till TOI carried a report on January 11, pointing out that Chandra was receiving two salaries. Soon after the report, Chandra paid back a chunk of the salary he had got from Air India. “We received two payments from Capt Chandra, one on January 11 and the other on January 14, amounting to a total of Rs 80 lakh,” said a source in the airline.
Chandra was a joint GM in Air India till January 2017, when he joined the DGCA on deputation as the chief flight operations inspector. Earlier too, he had worked for some years in the DGCA as a flight operations inspector.
Following the TOI report, AI looked into salary paid to Chandra since 2014. In April, it issued a showcause notice, saying that between April 2014 and March 2018, when Chandra was working for DGCA, AI had paid him a gross salary of Rs 2.79 crore, which after tax deduction worked out to Rs 1.97 crore. “You had not informed the company regarding the receipt of salary,” said the notice, asking why disciplinary action shouldn’t be initiated against him.
“Major recovery has been done. Disciplinary action has been initiated,” said the AI spokesperson.
20/07/19 Manju V/Times of India
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Capt Atul Chandra, the chief flight operations inspector of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), has disputed the amount quoted by Air India. Since 2015, airline officials on deputation to DGCA get paid by the regulator, and not the airline.
Air India was unaware that it was paying an officer no longer working for it till TOI carried a report on January 11, pointing out that Chandra was receiving two salaries. Soon after the report, Chandra paid back a chunk of the salary he had got from Air India. “We received two payments from Capt Chandra, one on January 11 and the other on January 14, amounting to a total of Rs 80 lakh,” said a source in the airline.
Chandra was a joint GM in Air India till January 2017, when he joined the DGCA on deputation as the chief flight operations inspector. Earlier too, he had worked for some years in the DGCA as a flight operations inspector.
Following the TOI report, AI looked into salary paid to Chandra since 2014. In April, it issued a showcause notice, saying that between April 2014 and March 2018, when Chandra was working for DGCA, AI had paid him a gross salary of Rs 2.79 crore, which after tax deduction worked out to Rs 1.97 crore. “You had not informed the company regarding the receipt of salary,” said the notice, asking why disciplinary action shouldn’t be initiated against him.
“Major recovery has been done. Disciplinary action has been initiated,” said the AI spokesperson.
20/07/19 Manju V/Times of India
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