Parliamentary committee against airport privatisation

The Centre's plan to privatise airports received a blow today from the Parliamentary standing committee on Transport which is against the move and instead advocates long term management contracts.
"We had adopted a report yesterday on privatisation of airports in India. I cannot disclose all the details till it is submitted before the Chairman of Rajya Sabha possibly in a week's time.
"But, I can tell you that we are totally against privatisation allowing transfer of assets to private entities," chairman of the standing committee Sitaram Yechury said here today.
"Instead, Airports Authority of India should be allowed to offer long term management contracts," he said.

The Civil Aviation Ministry was planning to roll out a second wave of privatisation for six airports - Chennai, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Lucknow, Jaipur and Guwahati.
Yechury expressed hope that the process initiated by the Centre would be rolled back after submission of the report.