Aerospace Diary

Posted by- Neelam Mathews Nov 26, 2012 We enclose a letter to the Chief Information Commissioner, New Delhi by an RTI activist even as his RTI on allegations by former IA CMD Sunil Arora against former aviation minister Praful Patel, are ignored. Sign of things to come? Sir,  Kindly refer to esteemed order dated 23.10.2012 in my petition-number CIC/SM/C/2012/001035 whereby your honour was kind enough to direct Appellate Authority at Union Cabinet Secretariat to give me an opportunity to be heard by him to ensure providing of desired information without any further loss of time. Learned Appellate Authority at Union Cabinet Secretariat Shri Subhash Chandra Garg summoned me for hearing on 20.11.2012 at 11 am, which was telephonically postponed for 6 pm on the same date. He was kind enough to allow query-numbers 1 to 4, 6, 8-12 and 14. I submitted my oral submissions towards query-numbers (5) and (7) with repeated requests to endorse these in the Appellate...

By- SUBHASH CHANDRA AGRAWAL (Guinness Record Holder & RTI Activist) With curtains now finally lowered by authorities ordering suspension of air-licence for Kingfisher, Union government should take immediate steps to ensure recovery of public-funds including a debt of rupees seven thousand crores of public-sector banks before Vijay Mallya succeeds in his efforts to save his enormous property and assets in his other money-minting companies from recovery-proceedings of Kingfisher Airlines.  Passports of Vijay Mallya and his family-members should be impounded. System should be that such defaulters of public-money may not be allowed to remain in legislature with serious attempts made to make Vijay Malalya resign/sacked from membership of Parliament.   It is indeed surprising and shocking that such steps were not initiated by Union government till now despite families of staff of Kingfisher Airlines not being paid salary for last so many months leading to suicide ...