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| DGCA to more than double staff |
| Mihir Mishra / New Delhi Nov 20, 2009, 00:25 IST |
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The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) will nearly triple its current staff strength to meet the demands of a growing aviation industry. The aviation regulator, which currently has a staff of about 250, has created 427 Group-A posts in various directorates across the country.
"The aviation industry is growing at a high rate and we needed to increase the staff strength to ensure decentralisation and strengthening of regional offices," a senior DGCA official said. "The recruitment process will take two years. We will conduct exams along with the Union Public Service Commission to fill the vacancies," the official added.
DGCA has regional airworthiness offices in Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Thiruvananthapuram, Bhopal, Lucknow, Patna, Bhubaneswar, Kanpur, Guwahati and Patiala. It also has regional air safety offices in Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata and Hyderabad, a regional research and development office at Bangalore and a gliding centre in Pune.
The main responsibility of the DGCA is to ensure the proper and safe functioning of the airline industry in the country. This starts from the registration of civil aircraft to formulation of standards of airworthiness for civil aircraft registered in India and the grant of certificates of airworthiness to such aircraft. The DGCA also oversees the licensing of pilots, aircraft maintenance engineers, flight engineers and air traffic controllers. The aviation regulator also has to ensure that all the aviation requirements for complying with the amendments of international organisations are met. It renders advice to the government on matters relating to air transport, including bilateral air services agreements.
The aviation authority had to recently face an audit by the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) after it threatened to downgrade India to Category-II status. In FAA's audit, which focused on the country's ability to adhere to standards and recommended practices of the International Civil Aviation Organisation for aircraft operations and maintenance, the Indian aviation sector was allowed to continue with Category-I status for complying with international safety standards. Downgrading would have meant no flights to United States from India.
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