States back Tamil Nadu on plea to share revenue if airports are privatised by Centre

Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand have come out in support of Tamil Nadu’s stance that whenever the Central government privatises an airport in a state, the state government should get a share in the revenue.

In a policy note issued earlier this month, Tamil Nadu said that if the state government acquires and transfers land to the Centre-run Airports Authority of India (AAI) free of cost, and if the AAI or the Centre transfers that land to a third party, the value realised or revenue accrued thereby must be proportionately shared with the state government “reflecting the huge investment in land being made by the state government”.