Don’t judge PSUs only on profit and loss: RSS-affiliated trade union slams govt over Air India sale

Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS), an RSS-affiliated trade union, on Tuesday slammed the Centre’s plan to privatise Air India. It urged the government to think “a hundred times” before going for privatisation of the airline.
“While calculating profit and loss of Air India, we need to think of the fact that Air India has been operating many of the low-profit or loss-making routes only to serve the passenger and connecting people with one another, promoting national unity; no private player will operate like that. Privatisation of AI can have a cascading impact; like many of those airports which would lose flights may face further crises; many of the emerging cities may face the crisis of connectivity, etc,” BMS said in a statement.