Government-owned Airports Authority of India (AAI) plans to abolish royalty and offer steep discounts in lease rent to encourage maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) units to set up facilities at its airports. Around 85 per cent of the $1.4 billion maintenance work of Indian airlines is carried out overseas and the government hopes that policy sweeteners will attract investment in the sector, generate employment and reduce import dependence. Last year, the government cut goods and services tax (GST) rate on aircraft repair and maintenance work from 18 to 5 per cent. To further incentivise the industry, it will lease out land at airports at discounted rates to repair units. Airports such as Bhopal, Chandigarh, Chennai, Hyderabad (Begumpet), Juhu, Kolkata and Tirupati, among others, have been identified for the purpose. Also, AAI has land parcels in Delhi that are also being considered for lease.
Employees Left High & Dry : Air India Unions Claim Inordinate Delay In Salary Disbursement
All India Aircraft Engineers Association and Air India Aircraft Engineers Association said that despite facing 40% pay cuts, they were being discriminated against PTI Outlook Web Bureau 2021-01-14T08:20:15+05:30 Employees Left High & Dry : Air India Unions Claim Inordinate Delay In Salary Disbursement outlookindia.com 2021-01-14T08:35:58+05:30
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The AIESL is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Air India. It is very much heartbreaking and devastating to know that despite facing 40 per cent unilateral pay cut, AIESL employees are again being discriminated and are left high and dry without salaries while their counterparts in Air India/Alliance Air/Air India Express were paid salaries on 8th January itself, the letter noted.
Air India unions write to CMD on inordinate delay in salary disbursement to engineers
In the letter, All India Aircraft Engineers Association and Air India Aircraft Engineers Association requested Bansal to address the issue of salary delay on priority basis.
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NEW DELHI: There has been an inordinate delay in the disbursement of salaries to aircraft maintenance engineers and executives working for Air India Engineering Services Limited (AIESL), claimed two unions in a letter to the airline s Chairman and Managing Director Rajiv Bansal on Wednesday.
The AIESL is a wholly owned subsidiary of Air India.
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