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Pushing For Buying A New Aircraft
By KTM Metro Reporter
March 27, 2012: at the informal meeting with ministers and staffs of Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC) held at Singha Durbar yesterday, Prime Minister Dr. Baburam Bhattarai has instructed the executive staffs of NAC and concerned ministers to move fast on purchasing the new aircrafts for the NAC, ‘The Rising Nepal’ of today writes.
According to the press statement released by the office of the prime minister, Prime Minister Dr. Bhattarai has pushed concerned bureaucrats and ministers for clearing off all hurdles on the way to purchasing new aircrafts, as new aircrafts are required for increasing the number of international flights.
Previous attempts on purchasing new aircrafts have ended on the protracted controversy and the case landed in the Supreme Court of Nepal. So, some of the attendees in the informal meeting have asked the prime minister for urging the Supreme Court of Nepal to expedite the ruling on the pending case concerning the purchase of new aircrafts.
Purchasing of new aircrafts goes with the juicy pie of commissions. Naturally, all stakeholders claim for their share in the pie causing protracted controversy. Former executives of the NAC have even landed in jail for some time in the case of irregularities in the management of the NAC because of possibly the fight in sharing the commission pie.
Prime Minister Dr. Bhattarai has said that the national flag carrier needs new aircrafts for international flights for the economic development through tourism sectors according to the news in ‘The Rising Nepal’ of today. It is true but his statement "The country is losing big opportunities of economic development in the absence of sufficient national flag carrier aircrafts for international flight" is not true, as other international airlines have been doing the business of bringing tourists to Nepal and carrying goods of exports and imports back and forth between Nepal and other countries. With the purchase of new aircrafts, the NAC needs to compete with other international airlines for international flights. So, its management needs to be efficient.
Prime Minister Bhattarai needs to know that the NAC previously known as RNAC had been the center of money making for the concerned departmental ministers making it the most corrupt state-run airline company. So, Dr. Bhattarai as the powerful prime minister needs to make NAC independent of the departmental ministers including the prime minister and bureaucrats, and run it as a commercial company without any chance of irregularities in running it otherwise the prime minister’s efforts on buying new aircrafts and running the NAC for development of Nepal in general will end in futile.
