The parliamentary standing committee on public undertakings on Tuesday asked the Civil Aviation and Tourism Ministry to submit a report within next one month explaining the reasons behind the Tk 80 crore loss incurred by Biman during fiscal 2009-10.
The committee at a meeting discussed the audit reports of the Civil Aviation Authority and Biman Bangladesh Airlines and reviewed the overall activities. The committee members raised questions over the huge loss incurred by Biman last year, the meeting sources said.
According to the audit report, the national flag carrier ran its operation during the caretaker regime without following proper rules and in the fiscal 2009-10 it incurred aloss of Tk 80 crore which prompted the committee to ask the reasons for such loss.
'Suddenly in the fiscal 2009-10Biman incurred such huge loss which was not normal and we wanted to look into the matter,' the committee chairman ABM Golam Mostafa told New Age after the meeting.
He said that the committee asked the Civil Aviation ministry to investigate into the matter and submit a detail report before the committee showing the reasons behind the huge loss within next one month.
'Not only the huge loss, we also wanted to know under which rules and regulations the Biman management recruited officials during the caretaker government regime and how much loss it incurred for raising the Biman fare,' committee member TIM Fazle Rabbi Chowdhury said.
He said that the committee sensed irregularities in the operation of Biman and wanted to know details for further course of action.
Meeting sources said that the committee recommended that the passenger transporting service and operation of Biman should be upgraded to make it commercially viable.
The committee also asked the Biman management to follow the SMART (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Reliable and Time bound) formula for improving the services of the national flag carrier.
Source: New Age
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