Airports Authority employees protest against govt move to privatise 6 airports

Hundreds of employees of state-owned Airports Authority of India (AAI) Tuesday staged protests across the country against the government's decision to privatise six profit-making airports, according to a union representative. 

Airports Authority employees protest against govt move to privatise 6 airports
Last month, the government cleared a proposal to manage six AAI airports under public private partnership. Image Source: Reuters
Written By: PTI
Updated: Wed, Dec 05, 2018
08:01 am
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Hundreds of employees of state-owned Airports Authority of India (AAI) Tuesday staged protests across the country against the government's decision to privatise six profit-making airports, according to a union representative. The protests were organised by the Airports Authority Employees Union.

Last month, the government cleared a proposal to manage six AAI airports under public private partnership. They are Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Lucknow, Guwahati, Thiruvananthapuram and Mangaluru. The Union's General Secretary Balraj Singh Ahlawat told PTI that protests were held across the country against the planned privatisation of the six airports.

The employees are planning to go on hunger strike starting from December 10 and later they might also go on mass casual leave, he said. There are around 15,000-16,000 employees at the AAI, he added.

The Airports Authority of India (AAI) operates more than 100 aerodromes.