Budget 2018-19

  New Delhi’s airport — Indira Gandhi International — will be a main handling point and has facilities to store 2.7 million vials of vaccine at 2-to-8 degrees Celsius Distributing vaccines around India will pose plenty of logistical headaches given the size of the country, its vast population and number of coronavirus cases, now at more than 10 million. For its part, India’s busiest airport is “completely ready” to handle Covid-19 vaccines, according to Delhi International Airport Ltd. Chief Executive Officer Videh Kumar Jaipuriar, but there could be issues elsewhere considering more remote areas may not be equipped with sufficient equipment and containers. “One of the key challenges will be the availability of cold chain across India,” he said. New Delhi’s airport — Indira Gandhi International — will be a main handling point and has facilities to store 2.7 million vials of vaccine at 2-to-8 degrees Celsius, as well as cooling chambers that can keep temperatures as low as minus 20 ...

  DIAL has also moved court to recover the money it paid to AAI since April Delhi International Airport (DIAL) has invoked the force majeure clause to suspend the revenue-share agreement with state-owned Airports Authority of India (AAI) as the Covid-19 pandemic continues to impact traffic flow and revenue. DIAL operates the Indira Gandhi International Airport – India’s largest in terms of passenger footfall. According to the agreement signed between AAI and DIAL in 2006 – as part of the privatisation process of Delhi Airport – DIAL paid 45.99 per cent of its annual revenue as concession fee to AAI. DIAL deposits the money on a quarterly basis in an escrow account, which AAI then transfers to its own account. DIAL has also moved Delhi High Court (HC) to recover Rs 399.20 crore it has made to AAI since April as part of the revenue-share agreement. Air transport was inoperative from March 24 for two months. The government had imposed a nationwide lockdown to contain the spread of the...