MUMBAI: Air India has issued a showcause notice to a joint general manager deputed to the civil aviation regulator for accepting a gross salary of Rs 2.8 crore in four years from the debt-ridden airline though he was not working for it.
Capt Atul Chandra, the chief flight operations inspector of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), has disputed the amount quoted by Air India. Since 2015, airline officials on deputation to DGCA get paid by the regulator, and not the airline.
Air India was unaware that it was paying an officer no longer working for it till TOI carried a report on January 11, pointing out that Chandra was receiving two salaries. Soon after the report, Chandra paid back a chunk of the salary he had got from Air India. “We received two payments from Capt Chandra, one on January 11 and the other on January 14, amounting to a total of Rs 80 lakh,” said a source in the airline.
