<span style="color: #222222;">The Government will continue to provide gratuity and provident fund benefits to the employees of existing Air India and Indian Airlines employees post disinvestment. This was stated by Minister of State for Civil Aviation Ministry V.K. Singh in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha today.<br />''<br />''The Minister said, interests of the employees have been taken care of by the Government and incorporated in the share purchase agreement signed with the strategic partner in October this year. Recently, the Government approved Air India disinvestment. The government had announced that Talace Private Limited a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tata Sons had won the bid to acquire the debt-laden airline.</span><br />