The Airports Authority of India employees' representatives on Thursday said they would not hesitate to go on strike again if the government went ahead with the privatisation of Delhi and Mumbai airports.
"We have not been officially intimated about any decision by the government of not including the privatisation of Delhi and Mumbai airports under the purview of the tripartite committee. If they go ahead with the privatisation process without informing us, we won't hesitate to go on strike again," AAI Employees Joint Forum Convenor M K Ghoshal told a protest meeting in New Delhi.
The threat came a day after the third meeting of the tripartite panel, comprising employees' representatives and officials of the civil aviation ministry and AAI, set up on airport modernisation.
At the meeting on Wednesday, Ghoshal and other union leaders demanded that the government should give in writing that Delhi and Mumbai airports were beyond the purview of the committee.
He said the forum had submitted an alternate plan to the government on modernisation of airports but it had not yet given any clarification on the status of the report that had been submitted to the official review committee.
"Even after three meetings of the tripartite committee, we don't know the government's stand on the report we have submitted," he said.
The ministry had yesterday stated that privatisation of Delhi and Mumbai airports were beyond the jurisdication of the tripartite committee, set up in the wake of the four-day strike by airport employees in February.
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