No plan under the sleeve to privatize NAC

Kathmandu- The Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation has made it clear that there was no plan to privatize the Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC). 

Issuing a press statement on Sunday, the NAC refuted the rumours that the processes to take forward the NAC in the company model. 

Spokesperson of the Ministry Taranath Adhikari said, “There is no any plan and programme 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 rumours and misleading information about the new programmes that the NAC was considering to overhaul and reform the system.

Appealing one and all to be on side of truth and fact, the Spokesperson 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, the 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 government had pledged to reform the NAC in the current fiscal year’s plan and programme.
-RSS