Manpower recruitment for the new domestic and international terminals at the Chennai airport is being worked out, said Krishna Kant Jha, Member (HR), Airports Authority of India (AAI), here on Friday.
Talking to reporters after inaugurating a Regional Training Centre at the new cargo complex at Meenambakkam, Mr. Jha said that the AAI had advertised in newspapers for recruiting junior executives. While it was a certainty that a large number of specialist workers would be required, the number had not been arrived at. “There are more than 20 departments such as service, operations, technical and so on. It is a long process that we will complete soon.”
The prospect of recruitment for the service sector in the airport has been a cause for concern among members of the AAI employees union. Airport sources said that a majority of the additional services were likely to be outsourced to private contractors.
Mr. Jha said that the ongoing feud between the staff of the erstwhile International Airports Authority of India (IAAI) and the National Airports Authority of India (NAAI) would be resolved soon. Calling them both “dissimilar organisations” that were merged in an unhappy setting, he said that the management was working towards a firm resolution.
The Regional Training Centre that was inaugurated is the second such centre. The first was started in New Delhi. This centre would be used to train the staff of the Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), Bureau of Civil Aviation Security and other departments in the aviation sector, said Dinesh Kumar, Director of the Indian Academy of Aviation. The centre would have two training centres, an auditorium, a computer training lab and office space.
The Centre would impart training in airfield driving, incident command for fire and operations, screening for CISF and online pilots examination for the DGCA.
