There had been a heated debate over the privatization of TVM Airport. At an all-party meeting in Kerala, all parties except the BJP, have come out together against the Centre’s decision giving charge of Trivandrum International Airport to Adani Enterprises. The meeting came to a conclusion to move a resolution in this regard in the state assembly when it meets for a day on August 24. Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan later shot off his second letter in two days to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, conveying the decision taken at the all-party meeting and requested him to reconsider the privatization move.
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Recently, Adani Enterprises has won the rights to run six airports -- Lucknow, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Mangaluru, Thiruvananthapuram, and Guwahati -- through the PPP (public-private participation) model after a competitive bidding process in February 2019. The CM told the all-party meet that the state government had asked for the management and the operation of the airport with the Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) in which it will be the major shareholder.
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The Kerala State Industrial Development Corporation (KSIDC) had taken part in the bidding. "The state government had also informed the Centre that they were ready to offer the amount quoted by Adani Enterprises," he was quoted as having said in the meeting, in a release issued by the Chief Minister's office. Pinarayi said it would be difficult for an entrepreneur to manage the airport without the cooperation of the state government.
