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Left set to limit airport reforms BS Corporate Bureau in New Delhi | February 06, 2006 08:53 IST The government may drop Kolkata and Chennai from the list of airports to be modernised in an attempt to appease the Left Front and employees' unions, which appear to have eaten the humble pie in calling off their agitation on Friday. Instead of the privatisation model being followed for the airports in Delhi and Mumbai - which triggered the agitation - the government may adopt a model of public-private partnership for the other two airports. Another option is to ask the Airports Authority of India to undertake the modernisation. Kolkata and Chennai are part of the long list of airports - which also has 35 non-metro ones - that the government plans to modernise in phases. "The AAI has the reserves, but these have to be used wisely. We can look at public-private partnership for developing the other two (metro) airports," said a civil aviation ministry official.>>>
