New Delhi: Plagued by severe staff shortage, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) is looking to hire retired aviation experts as consultants for as many as 114 critical safety and oversight posts across the country.
Staff shortage, though being felt for months now, has become more annoying in the last few weeks after director general EK Bharatbhushan barred senior officials from taking decisions pertaining to airlines in which their children were employed.
The aviation regulator has now sought applications from retired government employees and other aviation industry officials who are not yet 65 years of age for several critical posts.
The gamut of safety related posts on offer is startling.
The regulator wants to hire short-term consultants for its air safety wing: director, two deputy directors, 5 assistant directors and six safety officers.
Notably, air safety director RS Passi was recently stripped of his position on charges that he influenced an airline to employ his daughter, who had failed the mandatory pilot test.
DGCA is also seeking applications for the posts of deputy director in operations, information & regulation, and aircraft engineering.
DGCA, which has around 130 people manning its offices across the country, has vacancies for an astounding 500 posts, created some months back. A long and tedious process of recruitment for these posts is making its task that much more difficult.
12/05/11 Sindhu Bhattacharya/Daily News & Analysis
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