Problems

The air transport of India is facing the following main problems:

1. Running in Loss Both the Air India and the Indian Airlines are incurring constant losses. Some better airlines like Singapore and Lufthansa have shown w illingness to join with Air India.

2. Strikes Strikes have become regular feature in the air-transport industry. For example, the September/October 2009 strike of pilots created great inconvenience to the passengers and heavy losses to the Indian Airlines.

restricted to specified offices. In terms of management control, accounts are consolidated progressively from Branch Post Offices to Sub Post Offices and finally in Head Post Offices.

The Department has about 2.47 lakh departmental employees and about 2.93 lakh Gramin Dal Sevaks as on March 31, 2005.