India's aviation standards set to get a facelift

New Delhi: With India's aviation industry witnessing a boom, the government will soon make amendments in rules and procedures to ensure effective inspections of pilots and aircraft and to improve safety standards.
A committee headed by former civil aviation secretary MK Kaw is to submit shortly a report that will recommend changes to empower the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), the country's aviation regulator, to facilitate more stringent checking of pilots, aircraft and documentations.
The committee is also framing modalities to upgrade and modernise DGCA and enhance its powers and abilities for better monitoring of the aviation industry.
Sources familiar with the working of the committee said "some of the procedures currently followed in India are quite obsolete".
16/03/06 Times of India

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