A parliamentary panel has asked the government to explain whether public interest was being served by the private-public partnership (PPP) in the development and running of Delhi´s Indira Gandhi International airport. The Public Accounts Committee, in a latest report, virtually charged the government with enabling a private party (GMR) to benefit out of its partnership with state-run Airports Authority of India (AAI) to develop and manage the airport.
It asked the government to furnish the total earnings of the Delhi International Airport (DIAL) and that of the AAI to show ´whether public interest was substantially sub- served´ by the agreement with GMR-led DIAL.