The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) is carrying out operational and financial scrutiny of SpiceJet, civil aviation minister Ram Mohan Naidu said on Tuesday even as the airline grapple s with flight cancellations and delays.
“Our major priority right now is to ensure the passengers shouldn’t face any inconvenience. The safety shouldn’t be compromised at any cost in terms of operations. The minister declared that SpiceJet too had been given ₹ 150 crore under the scheme.
Because we don’t want any lapse in safety,” Naidu said, the immediate activity in the ministry regarding SpiceJet is that we have operational and, to a certain extent, financial scrutiny also being done from the ministry through the DGCA. “The rest is something the organization along with the bank have to work out so that the scheme is in place.
Naidu said the ministry was continuously engaging with the airline.“In terms of the future, we are continuously engaging and seeing how best we can facilitate the ministry side,” the aviation minister said. And then smooth operations are sustained within the airlines,” Naidu said. They need to get the money,” the minister said.
He however, clarified that the government had certain restrictions while dealing with private airlines. “..But you also see that these are private airlines.
There are certain limits with which the government also can operate with them,” he said, adding, “It is with this idea that the airlines might face problems, especially during the West Asia crisis, that the government has extended the scheme of ECGLS (Emergency Credit Line Guarantee Scheme),” Naidu said.
