Warning the minister against making any "off-the-cuff" remark, senior BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad said there must be a proper discussion on the issue.
"It is a serious and sensitive issue. There must be proper discussion within the government first and thereafter the views of the opposition need to be taken," he told reporters here when asked to comment on Singh's remarks.
Asking the government not to take a "disastrous move" which will go against national interest, senior CPI leader D Raja said the government had promised to bring a civil aviation policy but did not do it in so many years."It is undertaking privatization in bits and pieces without taking Parliament into confidence.
"While equity was not being infused in AI in accordance with the turn around plan, Airports Authority of India (AAI) was also being systematically undermined. This is a conscious effort to dismantle both these public sector undertakings," the CPI national secretary said.
He said it was also "atrocious" that six airports including Kolkata and Chennai were being privatized soon after AAI has spent rupees thousands of crores of public money to modernize and upgrade them.
Maintaining that general elections were on the anvil, Raja said these decisions should be taken by the new government after the elections.
"What moral right Ajit Singh has to take such decisions on behalf of the next government," he posed.
But, AAI Board has turned down the proposal for creation of 'Interim' additional manpower for CNS discipline, saying that already 840 posts were lying vacant, Kobiraj said.
"There are around 3,250 sanctioned posts in the CNS, of which about 840 have not been filled, despite the fact that new CNS-ATM facilities have been installed at various places in the country.
"The existing manpower had to maintain those facilities. Sometimes some of the facilities are left unattended or combined with other units, accruing air safety hazard," said Kobiraj, adding we have sought civil aviation minister Ajit Singh's intervention.
The Guild , in their letter to Singh, said the safety of air traffic services need not be emphasised further.
"....Let this be made amply clear that compromise to man and maintain the operationally critical CNS equipment has already led to serious air safety hazards. The sustenance of state-of-the-art CNS infrastructure will crumble, leave aside the envisaged dreams of world class air traffic services," the letter said.
The Guild alleged that many of the CNS and Air Traffic Management (ATM) facilities have been commissioned without considering appropriate CNS manpower requirement.
The ill effects of such disregard towards CNS manpower requirement may not be visible instantly but will surely result in an aviation disaster, it said.
In order to sustain Air Navigation Services in desired manner and to mitigate accruing air safety hazards, additional CNS manpower is most urgently required at all levels - be it at senior management level, supervisory level or at induction level, Kobiraj said in his letter.
The US' Federal Aviation Authority, in its recent audit, had also raised concerns over the various posts lying vacant in key aviation safety areas, including that in the office of the country's civil aviation regulator DGCA.
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