Hindustan
Times: New Delhi: Thursday, October 11, 2012.
Senior
aviation ministry officials are apparently upset over a deluge of Right to
Information (RTI) applications filed by the Indian Commercial Pilots’
Association (ICPA) an association of former Indian Airlines pilots.
“These cases
indicate frivolous use of RTI. This week an RTI was filed by ICPA asking who was
responsible for stopping the pilots’
privilege of travelling free as an additional crew member (ACM),” a senior
ministry official said.
“Interestingly,
ICPA, in a letter addressed to the aviation minister on September 5, stated
that the privilege was stopped on his instructions. Their RTI contradicts their
own letter. If they want to know through the RTI application who was
responsible for stopping their ACM travel then why did they allege the minister
was responsible?”
“We get
information only via media reports. The management has not officially issued a
circular. As a union of employees, the only way out is to file an RTI,” an ICPA
official said.
AI officials,
however, denied ICPA’s claims.
“On getting
instructions from the ministry on ACM, instructions were issued to the pilots.
Whoever says it has not been done is misleading,” an AI official said.
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