Share List TLI Staff New Delhi: Amid protests by Airports Authority of India (AAI) employees against leasing out six more airports including Varanasi and Amritsar to private parties, the Civil Aviation Ministry has circulated draft of the Cabinet note for bidding the airports on public-private-partnership (PPP) basis. Official sources saidContinue Reading
Share List TLI Staff New Delhi: Fighting tooth and nail against the government move to lease out almost a dozen of profit-making airports, the employee unions of state-run Airports Authority of India (AAI) would launch a sit-in protest on Thursday at Jantar Mantar, barely a mile away from the Parliament.Continue Reading
Share List TLI Staff New Delhi: As many as eight prominent members of the Rajya Sabha from across the political parties this week questioned the Modi government’s privatization overdrive but Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman chose to respond to none suggesting the move is either bereft of merits or itContinue Reading
Share List TLI Staff New Delhi: Having lost their power to harm or hamper work and public opinion against them, Air India unions are unlikely to resist government move to privatize Air India. Moreover, various unions representing different categories of employees are not on the same page and a dividedContinue Reading
Share List TLI Staff New Delhi: Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS), the trade union affiliated to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) that powers ruling BJP, has thrown its weight behind state-run Airports Authority of India (AAI) workers demanding immediate halt of government’s privatization overdrive. Armed with facts and figures to makeContinue Reading
Share List TLI Staff New Delhi: Sticking to their demand that no airports be privatized, employees union of Airports Authority of India (AAI) has stated that the ongoing move to give away profitable airports to private companies would create an identity crisis for the state-run agency. The union leaders inContinue Reading
Share List TLI Staff New Delhi: The government move to take away profitable airports from Airports Authority of India (AAI) and offering them to private companies may eventually make the state-owned entity sick. Going by the current pace of privatization, the day will not be too far when the sameContinue Reading
Share List TLI Staff New Delhi: The Modi government is on a selling spree. Like a spoiled brat it is putting on block one public asset after the other. It is for some reasons desperate to sell the flag carrier Air India, often termed as jewel of the nation. CompletelyContinue Reading
Share List TLI Staff New Delhi: Job opportunities for SCs and STs are set to further shrink with government going whole hog to privatize more public sector units (PSUs) such as BPCL, Air India and Shipping Corporation of India (SCI). Given that almost all lower-level positions in the government departmentsContinue Reading