Kingfisher Airlines staff to go on hunger strike
3 Jan 2014 7:01 AM IST
They also sought disqualification of corporate leaders from the membership of Parliament on charges of such default.
‘We are going on indefinite hunger strike from 6 January. We have approached other political parties as well but as of now we have not got any satisfactory response from them. We request you to support us in whatever ways possible,’ Anjan Kumar Deveshwar, a Kingfisher employees, said in a letter on behalf of the employees to Delhi minister and Aam Aadmi Party leader Manish Sisodia.
Alleging that Kingfisher kept paying its employees posted abroad due to the strict laws applicable there, they said, ‘Non payment of salary should be treated as a cognizable offence so that no one else has to suffer like us.’
As of now there is no clear law to deal with non-payment of salary by the management, the staffers said in the letter. Besides non-payment of salaries, the Vijay Mallya-owned private carrier, which stopped operations in October 2012, has defaulted on payment of loans worth over Rs 7,200 crore, secured mainly from the public sector banks.
It also owes over Rs 390 crore to the Airports Authority of India, in addition to defaulting on service tax payment. The Kingfisher employees also urged AAP to move the Supreme Court and use the Right to Information Act on the issue, saying ‘it is public money on which they thrive. Therefore, it is the right of public to ascertain that their hard earned money is not misused.’
India’s DGCA studying US Federal Aviation Authority safety norms
New Delhi: Aviation regulator DGCA is working on the observations and suggestions made by its US counterpart FAA during its recent safety audit but needs six more months to fully comply with all the recommendations, official sources said. Among concerns raised by Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) over 33 issues are filling up of several senior positions including those of full-time Flight Operations Inspectors (FOIs), beefing up of aviation safety training programmes and lack of manuals and documentation on certain safety issues.
The FAA is scheduled to give its final report on its December audit in a couple of weeks, the sources said. On the basis of this report after a two-day compliance audit, FAA would decide whether to downgrade India’s aviation safety status or maintain it on the top Category-I.
‘We are going on indefinite hunger strike from 6 January. We have approached other political parties as well but as of now we have not got any satisfactory response from them. We request you to support us in whatever ways possible,’ Anjan Kumar Deveshwar, a Kingfisher employees, said in a letter on behalf of the employees to Delhi minister and Aam Aadmi Party leader Manish Sisodia.
Alleging that Kingfisher kept paying its employees posted abroad due to the strict laws applicable there, they said, ‘Non payment of salary should be treated as a cognizable offence so that no one else has to suffer like us.’
As of now there is no clear law to deal with non-payment of salary by the management, the staffers said in the letter. Besides non-payment of salaries, the Vijay Mallya-owned private carrier, which stopped operations in October 2012, has defaulted on payment of loans worth over Rs 7,200 crore, secured mainly from the public sector banks.
It also owes over Rs 390 crore to the Airports Authority of India, in addition to defaulting on service tax payment. The Kingfisher employees also urged AAP to move the Supreme Court and use the Right to Information Act on the issue, saying ‘it is public money on which they thrive. Therefore, it is the right of public to ascertain that their hard earned money is not misused.’
India’s DGCA studying US Federal Aviation Authority safety norms
New Delhi: Aviation regulator DGCA is working on the observations and suggestions made by its US counterpart FAA during its recent safety audit but needs six more months to fully comply with all the recommendations, official sources said. Among concerns raised by Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) over 33 issues are filling up of several senior positions including those of full-time Flight Operations Inspectors (FOIs), beefing up of aviation safety training programmes and lack of manuals and documentation on certain safety issues.
The FAA is scheduled to give its final report on its December audit in a couple of weeks, the sources said. On the basis of this report after a two-day compliance audit, FAA would decide whether to downgrade India’s aviation safety status or maintain it on the top Category-I.
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