Chennai: The city deserves a better airport and the ministry of civil aviation is planning to work out a strategy to improve its terminals and other facilities, minister of civil aviation Ashok Gajapati Raju said here on Monday. However, the ministry is yet to take a decision on privatisation of the airport.
"We will work out a strategy to improve the airport. The main concern is hygiene. Hygiene levels have improved but we cannot let them slide," said the minister. "The government is not enamoured with privatisation. But we are not against it completely. We have to work out some strategy," he said when asked if the ministry is planning to investigate the shortfalls in the construction of the facility. He also said the government is aware that a few airports that have been privatised are doing well.
"Chennai is a prime city and it has not got what it deserves as an airport. I can understand that problems like incomplete engineering work and design issues cannot be changed overnight but there is no excuse not to maintain elementary hygiene," he said on the sidelines of a function that he attended in the city on Monday.
30/09/14 Times of India
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"We will work out a strategy to improve the airport. The main concern is hygiene. Hygiene levels have improved but we cannot let them slide," said the minister. "The government is not enamoured with privatisation. But we are not against it completely. We have to work out some strategy," he said when asked if the ministry is planning to investigate the shortfalls in the construction of the facility. He also said the government is aware that a few airports that have been privatised are doing well.
"Chennai is a prime city and it has not got what it deserves as an airport. I can understand that problems like incomplete engineering work and design issues cannot be changed overnight but there is no excuse not to maintain elementary hygiene," he said on the sidelines of a function that he attended in the city on Monday.
30/09/14 Times of India
