Chandigarh International Airport Ltd, CEO, Ajay Kumar along with Rakesh Dembla, chief financial officer and Avneet Kaur, company secretary presented the cheque of amount Rs 3.20 crore to Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar after deducting TDS from this dividend amount of Rs 3.56 crore.
Significantly, the aviation sector has been hit badly by the COVID-19 pandemic as domestic and international flights were banned. Even after resumption of domestic flights, restrictions were there on the number of passengers, he added.
Chandigarh International Airport sailed through these tough times, earned profit and paid dividend to its stakeholders. The Airport has handled 13.70 lakh domestic passenger movements in the year 2020-21 and 23.23 lakh domestic passengers in the year 2019-20