Air India employees to move Bombay High Court to save homes

Air India employees plan to approach the Bombay High Court and Maharashtra government to protest possible eviction from staff quarters in Mumbai.

Employees took the call at a protest meeting on Sunday which was attended by Shiv Sena MP Gajanan Kirtikar and NCP leader Vidya Chavan.

Last October the airline had issued notices to 1200 Air India employees to give an undertaking that they would vacate their staff quarters in Kalina area of Mumbai within six months of disinvestment. Employee unions protested the move and served a strike notice. The issue is now pending before labour commissioner's office which initiated a conciliation