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Maldives airport row: GMR employees' visas
to be cancelled
Thursday November 29, 2012 05:10:31 PM,
IANS
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Male: The work permits
and visas of GMR employees will be cancelled within seven days
after the Indian infrastructure giant was ordered by the Maldives
government to hand over the Male airport, a media report said
Thursday.
The immigration and emigration department informed that following
the termination of the agreement between the Maldivian government
and GMR, the work permits and visas of employees of GMR will be
cancelled within seven days, reported sun.mv.
The government Tuesday decided to terminate the agreement signed
in June 2010 between GMR-MAHB Consortium, Maldives Airports
Company Ltd., and the government of the Maldives, to lease the
Ibrahim Nasir International Airport in Male to GMR for 25 years.
Mohamed Khalid, deputy chief executive officer of immigration
department, told Sun Online that since the government has given
notice of seven days to GMR to hand over the airport, the work
permits and visas issued to GMR employees will not be valid after
this period.
He said that this is as per existing regulations.
"Government institutions have to comply with the government's
decisions, so we have decided to do this," he was quoted as
saying.
Another media report, however, said that Immigration Department
has decided not to renew visas and work permits of foreign
employees of Ibrahim Nasir International Airport (INIA) operator
GMR group.
Haveeru.com quoted Deputy Immigration Controller Hamid Fathulla as
saying that that the decision was made on the back of the
government's decision to annul the agreement GMR. He added that
though the visas will not be renewed, employees can remain in
Maldives until the end of their current visa period.
GMR has described as "illegitimate" the order by the Maldives
government to hand over the Male airport within seven days after
its contract was annulled, and insisted the company will not leave
the Indian Ocean archipelago nation.
Former president Mohamed Nasheed Wednesday said the government of
President Mohamed Waheed Hassan Manik used xenophobia, nationalism
and religious extremism to attack GMR and annul the agreement.
The agreement was signed during the regime of then president
Mohamed Nasheed. The $500-million project was hanging in balance
ever since the regime change in the Maldives earlier this year.
After a civil court in the Maldives ruled that GMR cannot claim
$27 from passengers as Airport Development Charge and insurance
surcharge, the Indian firm had taken the case to Singapore for
arbitration.
GMR was deducting $27 from each passenger since January.
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