Never gave assurance to Parliament about providing jobs to Jet Airways’ employees: Hardeep Puri

NEW DELHI: Civil aviation minister Hardeep Singh Puri has clarified that he did not give any assurance regarding employment of Jet Airways’ employees during Parliament proceedings in July.
The minister was replying to an allegation by AAP Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh who on November 27 said in the House that Puri had “assured” Parliament “no employee of Jet Airways would lose job and would be adjusted in other companies”.
According to Singh, the minister had also said that a website having details of the employees was being launched for that purpose.
Jet Airways had shut down its operations on April 17 as it had run out of funds.
On December 2, Puri wrote a letter to Singh, stating, “I am writing with reference to the issue of employment of Jet Airways staff raised by you in Rajya Sabha on November 27, 2019.”