KATHMANDU: The Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation (MoCTCA) has made it clear that there was no plan to privatize the Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC).
Issuing a press statement Sunday, the Ministry and NAC refuted the rumors of taking forward the NAC in the company model.
Spokesperson of the Ministry Taranath Adhikari said, “There is no any plan and program to convert NAC into the company model or privatize it. This is to inform one and all that there has been no any discussion regarding this either.” Adhikari in the statement said that the Ministry’s attention has been drawn towards the rumors and misleading information about the new programs that the NAC was considering to overhaul and reform the system.
Appealing one and all to be on side of truth and fact, Spokesperson Adhikari ruled out any possibility for the NAC to be privatized at this moment.
Similarly, General Manager of the NAC, Dim Prasad Poudel said that NAC should not be run as a private-public organization in the existing condition. The staffers at the NAC had protested when process to privatize the NAC was taken forward. Some employee organizations had padlocked the rooms of the high-ranking officials for nearly five days in the NAC as a protest of the management’s move to private the NAC.
The padlocks were unlocked in the assistance of the police administration. However, voices of dissent continue to come from the disgruntled staffers.
NAC has already made it clear that it had sought many alternatives to find a fitting modality to run the NAC and to reform it when the government had pledged to reform the NAC in the current fiscal year’s plans and programs. RSS
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