CIAL decides to close down AME School

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NEDUMBASSERY: The Cochin International Airport Limited (CIAL) on Monday decided to close down its Aircraft Maintenance Engin..

NEDUMBASSERY: The Cochin International Airport Limited (CIAL) on Monday decided to close down its Aircraft Maintenance Engineering School (CIAL AME School), within a year. The decision has caused apprehension among the students who had already joined the institution.
The CIAL AME School, launched in September 2010 by Cochin International Aviation Services Limited (CIASL), a subsidiary of CIAL, was considered as one of the major attractions in the development of the airport. However, CIAL had entrusted Kairali Aviation Private Limited, a Bangalore based institution, to run the AME School. Parents complain that this was not intimated to neither the students nor to the parents.More than 30 students joined the first batch of the school. But following an inspection, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) decided not to renew the recognition of the school.

It also denied permission to admit the new batch of students to the Basic Diploma course in AME. The course fee was `5 lakh and the students who joined had remitted Rs. 1.77 lakh by this time.

The CIASL has reportedly informed the parents that the students would be given admission in AME Institutes in T'Puram, Kochi and Coimbatore since it is not possible to run the institute further. But the parents have not accepted this change and have threatened to resort to legal action against the compulsory transfer.

Meanwhile, CIASL is reportedly planning to invoke legal proceedings against Kairali Aviation Ltd.

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