The Hindu Business Line : Trivandrum taxi drivers oppose `Rent-A-Car' scheme

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Trivandrum Airport Taxi Drivers Welfare Association has opposed the proposed `Rent-A-Car' system for the Thiruvananthapuram International Airport.

A resolution passed at the 17th meeting of the Association here said that it would be forced to launch an agitation against the move of the airport authorities to entrust the taxi service at the airport to private parties in a phased manner. This had come at a time when other airports in the country had either scrapped the system or were on the verge of doing so. However, the Thiruvananthapuram airport authorities had gone as far as to invite tenders to introduce the very system that its counterparts had chosen to dump.

Well over 300 taxi drivers are now attached to the airport taxi service being operated as per the Memorandum of Settlement reached with the Airports Authority of India modelled on the basis of a High Court directive, a spokesman of the Association said.

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