is unable to meet its various financial obligations so i shall be grateful if you could kindly look into the matter personally to ensure that the outstanding dues of ai are cleared at the earliest mishras letter to additional secretary home ministry on april 10 2017 statedsimilar letters were sent to the mea and the defence ministry on april 10 2017 seeking clearance of bills for the vvip visits operations and maintenance the records show that civil aviation minister ashok gajapathi raju had to intervene to recover the pending dues in his letter dated december 21 2015 to finance minister arun jaitley raju had said air india was operating under turnaround plan and financial restructuring plan approved by the cabinet committee on economic affairs ccea for its financial and operations turn around however despite improvement in many of its parameters it is still incurring losses and is facing financial crunch he had saidthe minister had requested jaitleys intervention in ensuring that the dues of all the four ministries were released to air india whatever need be the requisite amounts may be allocated to these ministries in their budget at the third supplementary stage he wrote batra who filed the rti query said he was sad to find that air india had not made desirable improvement in cutting down the time in preparing invoices after vvip visits the authorities responsible for paying bills initially do not project adequate funds for the year for example ministry of home affairs has been initially projecting only rs 200 crore for the year and later seeks more allocation at revised estimate stage of budget he told ptithe activist said it could result in the payments being delayed until the funds were available in the next financial year