Soon after his keynote address at the US-India Aviation Partnership Summit at the Washington Convention Center in Washington DC, Nambiar told rediff.com, although India's airlines were bleeding currently, they would bounce back because of domestic and international travel demands.
"We have asked the private airlines to provide smooth passenger facilitation and also not to escalate fares so that passengers face minimal inconvenience," civil aviation secretary M Madhavan Nambiar said.
The ministry has asked the airlines to not to "take benefit of the situation" and charge higher fares for the tickets.
The government on Sunday said a couple of passengers onboard the Delhi-bound Indigo flight from Goa had behaved "aggressively" and threatened to "hijack" the aicraft prompting authorities to put in place an emergency drill at the IGI airport in New Delhi.
India's international carrier Air India has come to the relief of Jet Airways passengers, after Jet had to cancel over 130 flights when 400 pilots failed to show up for work.
Jet Airways chairman Naresh Goyal on Tuesday met civil aviation secretary Madhavan Nambiar on Tuesday against the backdrop of pilots of the private carrier refusing to report to work to protest against the sacking of two of their senior colleagues.
The panel headed by former Special IT Secretary M Madhavan Nambiar and former health secretary Rajeev Sadanandan, will also ascertain whether adequate procedures were followed while finalising the arrangements with the private company, Sprinklr. The Opposition Congress has been levelling charges that the collection of data by the US firm violated the fundamental rights of the patients.
P Anitha, Madhavan Nambiar, Sudha Hari Narayan Singh, Virender Singh, and KY Venkatesh have also been awarded the prestigious award.
The IT industry has been crying hoarse over the lack of talent for a long time now and this is now being considered as the biggest threat to India's domination as an IT superpower.
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