LTC/Tour in Air India for Govt. Servants

Fax Message

To: (1) The Secretary (Civil Aviation), Govt. of India, Rajeev

Gandhi Bhavan, Safderjung Airport, New Delhi.

(2) The Secretary, Department of Expenditure, Ministry of

Finance, Govt. of India, North Block, New Delhi – 110 001.

From: D. Ayyappan, General Secretary, Non-Gazetted Govt.

Officers’ Association, Andaman and Nicobar Islands,

CRUSADE HOUSE, Phoenix Bay, Port Blair – 744 102.

Telefax: 03192 – 235747 & 03192 – 233257

No. NGO/ 3-9/CC/2009 Date: 29.10.2009

Tourist Season in Andaman and Nicobar Islands started from October, 2009 and will continue upto February/March, 2010 (.)Air India is operating one flight each from Chennai and Kolkata to Port Blair daily which is insufficient to meet the passenger rush in these sectors (.) No additional flight between Port Blair and Kolkata/Chennai sectors has been introduced by the Air India so far (.) Government of India, Ministry of Finance (Deptt. Of Expenditure) vide their OM No. 19024/1/2009-E.IV dated 13^th July, 2009 has ordered that government servants should travel by Air India flight on Tour/LTC, etc. and that too only at LTC-80 fare. Limited tickets are issued under LTC-80 fare scheme in every flight (.) This has put government servants working in the islands into inconvenience as they are forced to buy air tickets from Air India on exorbitant fare due to non-availability of lower category fare (.) Government servants who are required to proceed to mainland from Andaman and Nicobar Islands on emergency have been forced to buy tickets of excessive fare but government reimburses only LTC-80 fare (.) Tickets are also not available even for patients referred to mainland hospitals (.) Government employees are in an agitated mood here (.) This Association seeks your kind intervention to have sufficient number of additional flights by Air India between Chennai-Port Blair and Kolkata – Port Blair sectors so that government employees serving in the islands can get tickets of lower category fare (.) In case it is not possible, the government employees working in Andaman and Nicobar Islands may be allowed to avail private airlines in the above sectors, and also be allowed re-imbursement of full fare of tickets by Air India flight (.)

(D. Ayyappan)

General Secretary

Cell: 9434260430.

Copy to:

1. The Chief Secretary, A & N Administration, Port Blair.

2. The Secretary (Civil Aviation), A & N Administration, Port Blair.

3. The Managing Director, Air India Ltd. (NACIL), 22^nd Floor, Air India

Building, Nariman Point, Mumbai – 21.

4. Com. KKN Kutty, Secretary General, Confederation of Central Govt.

Employees & Workers, New Delhi.

5. The Station Director, NACIL (Air India Ltd), Port Blair, for necessary action.