CIAL Told to Issue Details of Board Meeting Under RTI

Indian Express: Kochi: Thursday, 19 March 2015.

Kerala State Information Commission has ordered Cochin International Airport Limited (CIAL) officials to issue portions of minutes of the board meeting which do not affect the intellectual property rights and security matters of the airport.

Earlier, the Appellate Authority of CIAL had denied those details citing security and other reasons when an RTI was filed in this regard by CIAL Loading and Unloading Workers Union secretary K O Antony and other workers in the union. Later the appeal was submitted by Akapparambu native M M Varghese in August 2014.

They sought certified copies of the minutes about the meeting which had discussed the Employment Package for Evictees held on August 19, 2014. The main argument put forward by the airport authorities for denying the information was that the minutes of the board meeting contain crucial decisions affecting their competitiveness, security provisions and  aviation security which cannot be divulged in the present scenario of various threats to the airports all over the country.