Two teams led by the joint director general of the DGCA started a survey of airports following a 19 June order, days after the Air India flight crash in Ahmedabad.
The Comprehensive Special Audit initiative will assess compliance, operational performance, and system resilience across all facets of the aviation industry.
Aviation watchdog demands reply within a week and wants the asked that the axed officials, from the 3 officials to be reassigned to non-operational roles.
New Delhi: The DGCA has ordered enhanced safety inspection of Air India’s Boeing 787-8/9 aircraft in the aftermath of Thursday’s crash that killed 241...
An aviation safety firm's CEO says a team from the Indian aviation regulator & those from every regulator where the aircraft is operated are expected to visit the crash site soon.
India's aviation sector is soaring, but steep training costs, outdated infrastructure, and the long haul from a commercial licence to the cockpit are keeping pilots grounded.
Implementation of new norms, introduced in January to ease pilots' working hours, rest periods, has been deferred. Pilots complain of constantly-changing roster & being 'financial slaves'.
Is there a place for a counter-bureaucracy, or a separate and competing bureaucracy to counterbalance the force of the executive’s bureaucracy, asked author MH Mody in 1980.
With bad loans shrinking & capital buffers stronger, urban co-op banks’ new umbrella body NUCFDC is now prioritising rollout of digital transformation.
If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.
Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.
What if there was NO DGCA, absurd though that proposition sounds. IndiGo as one of the most valuable airlines in the world. Tatas as one of the most respected business houses. Flying is a rigorous business. Should managements, in consultation with manufacturers, Boeing and Airbus, other suppliers like GE and Rolls Royce, not have their own internal safety manuals. Which are scrupulously followed, even without external oversight. Sounds a little idealistic, but absent this devotion to duty, managements will be spending time responding to wails on social media and more grim occasions when they have cut one corner too many.
What if there was NO DGCA, absurd though that proposition sounds. IndiGo as one of the most valuable airlines in the world. Tatas as one of the most respected business houses. Flying is a rigorous business. Should managements, in consultation with manufacturers, Boeing and Airbus, other suppliers like GE and Rolls Royce, not have their own internal safety manuals. Which are scrupulously followed, even without external oversight. Sounds a little idealistic, but absent this devotion to duty, managements will be spending time responding to wails on social media and more grim occasions when they have cut one corner too many.