Air India has resumes its compassionate selections

New Delhi: Air India had lifted its ban in 2016 on compassionate appointments after almost eight years, and has now slowly started to make appointments based on compassionate grounds across all its networks around the country.

According to a senior official in Air India, some 150 compassionate appointments have been made by the ailing airline in the last two years, since the process was reopened after it was closed down in 2007 across the country.

In Air India’s Northern region, 25 compassionate appointments have been made in the last two years, against 171 applications received over the last nine years.

Air India reopened its policy for compassionate appointments on 1 January 2016. According to the compassionate appointment policy, a dependant or next of kin of a deceased employee is considered for an appointment with the airlines, and according to Air India, compassionate appointment was brought back to support the family of any deceased employee.

The senior Air India official cited above told The Sunday Guardian, “Air India had stopped compassionate appointments after Indian Airlines and Air India were merged in 2007. However, we reconsidered this decision to once again start compassionate appointments. In the last two years, we have been able to make 150 compassionate appointments for the next of kin of any deceased employee while in service.”

However, Joginder a 29-year-old hairdresser and son of Late Satya Bir Singh, a former employee of Air India, said that he has been running from pillar to post for a compassionate appointment with the airlines for the last seven years since his father passed away in 2008, but to no avail.
Air India, however, has said that applications received only after lifting of the ban on 1 January 2016 will be considered for compassionate appointments.
03/02/18 Dibyendu Mondal/Sunday Guardian Live

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