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Air India unions oppose privatisation bid, demand meeting with govt After the budget announcement on Friday, Air India chairman Ashwani Lohani had called a meeting of all the 13 unions of the airline Monday to discuss the privatisation plan Current Affairs :- Over dozens union of Air India Monday turned out firmly against the administration’s subsequent offer to sell the monetarily injured national bearer, association sources said after a gathering with the carrier’s administration. After the spending declaration on Friday, Air India administrator Ashwani Lohani had assembled a conference of all the 13 associations of the carrier Monday to talk about the privatization plan. “The gathering of 13 associations have chosen to restrict the privatization move,” an association functionary told PTI over telephone from New Delhi after the gathering with the administration. During the gathering, which went on for around two hours, association agents told the administration that ...

Confident of solving Jet crisis: Aviation minister Hardeep Singh Puri Confident of solving Jet crisis: Aviation minister Hardeep Singh Puri Current Affairs :-Civil aviation minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on Friday he is certain that issues at grounded Jet Airways Ltd will be tackled, in the administration’s first remarks on the obligation loaded transporter since it was re-chosen a month ago. “(We are) exceptionally sure we can tackle the issues at the now dead transporter,” Hardeep Singh Puri said on the sidelines of a gathering in New Delhi, in remarks generally translated as alluding to Jet. Huge obligation and choking out value rivalry constrained what was at one time India’s greatest private-division aircraft to stop activities in April at the expense of thousands of occupations, and bringing about higher airfares over the business. The aircraft and its moneylenders have been looking for new financial specialists, while representative associations have been call...