Airports Authority of India has spent over Rs 34 crore on maintenance of 31 non-operational airports in the country in the last three years.
Apart
from the 31 non-operational airports, there are 45 defence airports, 83
state government airports and five private air strips lying unused, K C
Venugopal, Minister of State in the Ministry of Civil Aviation informed
the Rajya Sabha on Thursday.
The 31 non-operational airports are
located in 16 states and AAI has spent a total of Rs 34.43 crore since
2009-10 on their maintenance.
In 2009-10, AAI spent Rs 8.07
crore, in 2010-11, RS 19.23 crore and in 2011-12 Rs 11.46 crore, he
said, adding AAI has incurred a loss of Rs 38.74 crore on these airports
in last three financial year.
In reply to a separate question on
audit of flying clubs, Venugopal informed the House that there were 44
private and government flying schools in the country and Directorate
General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) had audited 39 of them.
During
the audit, irregularities pertaining to upkeep of documents like
compendium, flying training circulars, completion of flying training
dossiers briefing, de-briefing, maintenance of dissemination register
for information to working engineers and false logging were found.
The
Minister, while replying to a question on failure of radar at the
Delhi's IGI airport, said, "In the last six months, radar services got
disrupted only on two occasions."
Source: http://businesstoday.intoday.in
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