The joint forum of AAI unions and associations will take out a protest march at New Delhi’s Jantar Mantar on Thursday against airportsprivatisation.
Last year, the government had decided to privatise airports in Lucknow, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Mangaluru, Thiruvananthapuram, and Guwahati for operation, management, and development through public-private partnership (PPP) model.
The forum alleges that the government has “unilaterally” decided to privatise dozens of profit-making airports, which is neither in public interest nor for better management of these aerodromes.
The AAI manages around 120 airports in the country with a workforce of around 17,000. The AAI unions/associations recently formed the forum to protect and safeguard the AAI and interests of its employees besides explaining the impact of the privatisation.
