The growing dissonance between Union civil aviation minister Ashok Gajapati Raju and his junior colleague, Minister of State (MoS) for civil aviation Mahesh Sharma, seems to have held up several policy decisions — including those on charging extra for check-in baggage and the proposal for the Greater Noida airport.
“We have not approached or issued any instruction to the DGCA regarding levying charges on passengers for carrying check-in baggage. As far as the airport at Jewar is concerned, no word or approval has come in from the state government, whose consent is a must for the project,” a senior official said.
Raju belongs to the TDP; Sharma is the BJP MP from Gautam Buddha Nagar, of whose constituency the proposed international airport at Jewar will be part of.
On June 25, Sharma approved the proposal for the NCR’s second airport — in Raju’s absence, and without the Uttar Pradesh government’s clearance. Asked whether the proposal had been forwarded for the approval of the Cabinet — as Sharma had indicated — Raju had said on Thursday, “I won’t know… Land is a state subject, aviation a central subject. Both the state and the central government have to be on board… I don’t even know whether it (proposal for a new airport) should go to the Cabinet.”
06/07/15 Sharmistha Mukherjee/Financial Express
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“We have not approached or issued any instruction to the DGCA regarding levying charges on passengers for carrying check-in baggage. As far as the airport at Jewar is concerned, no word or approval has come in from the state government, whose consent is a must for the project,” a senior official said.
Raju belongs to the TDP; Sharma is the BJP MP from Gautam Buddha Nagar, of whose constituency the proposed international airport at Jewar will be part of.
On June 25, Sharma approved the proposal for the NCR’s second airport — in Raju’s absence, and without the Uttar Pradesh government’s clearance. Asked whether the proposal had been forwarded for the approval of the Cabinet — as Sharma had indicated — Raju had said on Thursday, “I won’t know… Land is a state subject, aviation a central subject. Both the state and the central government have to be on board… I don’t even know whether it (proposal for a new airport) should go to the Cabinet.”
06/07/15 Sharmistha Mukherjee/Financial Express
