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AAI staff to strike work on Sep 27

Source: PTI
September 23, 2004 16:20 IST
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All sections of employees of the Airports Authority of India, barring air traffic controllers, would go on a mass casual leave across the country on September 27 to protest the government move to restructure Delhi and Mumbai airports.

The call has been given by the AAI Employees Joint Forum to protest what they called the "privatisation" of the two airports and to press for considering the "alternate plan" submitted by them to build world-class airports in these two cities, forum chief, M K Ghoshal, told PTI in New Delhi.

He said while conciliation moves were on through the labour department mechanism, Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel has invited them for discussions on September 25 at Mumbai.

"Our agitation call will depend on the response we get from the minister and the government," Ghoshal said. The forum is an umbrella body of unions belonging to AAI employees, officers, air traffic controllers and other sections.

The Left parties have supported the joint forum's call and have asked the government to consider the alternative plan submitted by them earlier. The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Transport and Tourism has also recommended that the alternate proposal be considered.

In its "alternate plan" submitted in July to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the forum had said the AAI had in 1996 presented a feasibility report for development of Delhi and Mumbai airports to the Vajpayee government, which, while going ahead with the process, had suddenly decided to privatise them.
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