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CPI-M lobbies for China in Airport Modernization

2006-05-26 New Delhi: A CPI(M) MP has asked the government to clarify whether China was considered a security threat in supplying aerobridges for Indian airports, as a Chinese copany's bid was rejected on that count by the Airports Authority of India despite it being the "lowest".

In a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Rajya Sabha member Tapan Sen referred to an affidavit filed by AAI before the Delhi High Court, which maintained AAI was within its right to reject any tender for security reasons.

The AAI, he said, had maintained in the affidavit that after 9/11, security threat perceptions had changed and "a fresh categorisation of sensitive, hyper-sensitive and airports in border areas" was carried out by the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security.

Sen said the Court had observed in the case that under the garb of security reasons, the respondent (AAI) was not open to create a monopoly.

He pointed out that the bid by the Chinese company, M/S Shenzen Cimac-Tianda Airport Support Ltd, was the lowest at Rs 79.10 crore which was rejected on security grounds, leaving a single bidder, Spain's M/S ThyssenKrupp, that quoted Rs 189 crore for the same job.

The CPI(M) MP also pointed out that the same Chinese firm had been supplying Passenger Boarding Bridges to AAI since 1997 and had them installed at Kochi, Bangalore and Hyderabad airports.

"You will agree that security reason, if any, should hold good for the whole airport, rather than only for aerobridges and security perception should be clear vis-a-vis our relation with other countries. This cannot be left to the sweet will" of BCAS and Civil Aviation Ministry, he said.

Sen said modernisation works in sensitive and hyper- senitive airports like those in Delhi and Mumbai were now being handed over to private operators in collaboration with German and Singaporean companies.

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