Cabinet refers aviation policy to GoM
15 Jun 2007
The referral was made after the Cabinet felt that several proposals contained in the policy, called Vision-2020, needed to be further discussed, official sources said. The cabinet meeting was chaired by the prime minister, Dr Manmohan Singh.
Some of the contentious issues include the proposal to separate Air Traffic Control (ATC) from the Airport Authority of India (AAI) to form a separate company, sources said. This clashes with a view amongst industry and political circles that separation of the ATC from the AAI would lead the latter to lose a substantial chunk of its revenues.
Sources said that the prime minister would soon constitute a GoM, which would take up these issues.