India to soon have its first aviation museum

New Delhi: India will soon have a national aviation museum to commemorate the 100th year of the first domestic flight in the country in 1911, Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel said Monday.
'One important decision that the government of India has taken is to set up a national museum for aviation. This would be one of the largest museums of aviation anywhere in the world,' Patel said after a meeting of the centenary celebration committee here.
According to him, the proposed museum would be in New Delhi only and work on it would start later this year.
'The location most probably will be at the Safdarjung Airport and the museum would be called Rajiv Gandhi National Museum for Aviation,' Patel said.
He evaded questions on the cost. 'Cost is not the issue, we want to do it in the best possible manner,' Patel said, also adding a a national university of civil aviation would be established, which would be known as Aviation Training and Management University.
While Patel did not disclose any further detail about the proposed university, he said that his ministry would ask universities across the country to add a subject related to civil aviation in their curriculum.
17/01/11 IANS/Sify

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Categories: Indian Aviation- In General Jan 2011