India’s aviation space is grappling with more than just a pilot deficit problem as industry experts highlight the need for the government and the aviation regulator to step in.
New infra projects involve not just repair work of runways and creation of additional taxi ways to enable better tempo of operations, but also storage of spare parts and munitions.
As the BJP heads for a likely third successive term in power, it's fascinating to debate how true it looks to the original proposition: a party with a difference.
That a scam took place is not in doubt. The fair value of each licence – given through a very opaque process masquerading as first come first served – was about 10,000 crores, as inferred from the premium paid by incoming partners such as Etisalat, six times the amount the government received. There is merit in A Raja’s contention that everyone upto the PM – who sought only to be kept at arm’s length from wrongdoing in his government – was in the loop. It would be wrong to treat the trial court’s judgment as the end of this saga.
That a scam took place is not in doubt. The fair value of each licence – given through a very opaque process masquerading as first come first served – was about 10,000 crores, as inferred from the premium paid by incoming partners such as Etisalat, six times the amount the government received. There is merit in A Raja’s contention that everyone upto the PM – who sought only to be kept at arm’s length from wrongdoing in his government – was in the loop. It would be wrong to treat the trial court’s judgment as the end of this saga.