The performance criteria of cooling capacity, condenser capacity, compressor power consumption, COP, and COPU have been enhanced.

Copu, after examining the findings of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India ( CAG) on the issue, said that the Mumbai International Airport Ltd ( MIAL) should be squarely blamed for the highly irregular withdrawals through deliberate misrepresentation of the law, rules and regulations and basic facts from an escrow account which it was operating in fiduciary capacity.

This has been buttressed by the scathing Committee on Public Undertakings ( COPU) report, compiled by Kishore Chandra Deo, which calls a spade a spade.

Kishore Chandra Deo, now a minister in the Union Cabinet, but earlier chairman of the highly critical Committee on Public Undertakings ( COPU) was most direct in his report on the shotgun wedding five years ago.

Deo, chairman of the Committee on Public Sector Undertakings (Copu) said in his report.

Claiming the merger to be a reason for AI's poor performance, the Committee on Public Undertakings ( COPU) urged the Centre to create separate airlines for domestic and international routes under a single holding firm, such as the National Aviation Company of India Limited ( NACIL).