Synopsis: According to an official release, the Ministry of Civil Aviation signs MoU with Adani Group to provide services such as customs, immigration, and security at the airports in Jaipur, Guwahati, and Thiruvananthapuram.
According to an official announcement, the Civil Aviation Ministry inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Adani group on Wednesday for the provision of services like customs, immigration, and security at the airports of Jaipur, Guwahati, and Thiruvananthapuram.
The Centre privatised six major airports in the country in February 2019 — Lucknow, Ahmedabad, Mangaluru, Jaipur, Thiruvananthapuram, and Guwahati — and the Adani group obtained the rights to run all of them for 50 years after a competitive bidding process.
In October and November of last year, the Adani group took over the airports in Lucknow, Ahmedabad, and Mangaluru. The remaining airports have yet to be taken over.
“An MoU for providing Reserved Services (customs, immigration, plant and animal quarantine services, health services, meteorological and security services) was signed between MoCA (Ministry of Civil Aviation) and Adani Enterprises Ltd for Jaipur, Guwahati and Thiruvananthapuram airports,” the MoCA (Ministry of Civil Aviation) said on Twitter.
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Moreover, an agreement for providing communication navigation surveillance-air traffic management (CNS-ATM) services at these three airports was also executed between Adani Enterprises and Centre-run Airports Authority of India on Wednesday, it said.
“The MoU was signed by Rubina Ali, Joint Secretary, MoCA (Ministry of Civil Aviation), and Parikshit Kaul, Senior Vice President, Adani Enterprises, while the CNS-ATM agreement was signed between S Swaminathan, GM (ATS), AAI and Parikshit Kaul in presence of AAI chairman, board members and senior officials,” the ministry said.
