Mumbai: The three pillars of the country's civil aviation industry are in the dock after the Comptroller and Auditor General of India has put their performance under a microscope and questioned their abilities.
The Bureau of Civil Aviation Securities (BCAS), Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) and the Ministry of Civil Aviation (MOCA) are facing the heat after the CAG has raised several issues including the non-commencement of important projects and overspending on aircraft that lay unused.
The auditor in his report (copy available with MiD DAY), raised the issue of the apathetic attitude of BCAS officials and their failure to start the Civil Aviation Security Training Academy (CASTA), 13 years after it was proposed. The CASTA proposal was raised following the hijack of the Indian Airlines flight in 1993 and the proposal to start such an agency was passed in December 1996 with an allocation of Rs 16.87 crore. After a large discussion, the ministry had decided that the academy would be set up at Netaji Nagar in Delhi and Rs 2.65 crore was additionally released for the same. However, the proposal remained in limbo till 2005.
Similarly, the construction of the office of regional deputy commissioner of security (RDCOS) at Mumbai, which was approved by the ministry in 2003, did not commence till January 2010.
As CASTA never saw the day of light, the design was merged into the Indian Aviation Academy under the aegis of the National Institute of Aviation Management & Research Society.
20/10/11 Bipin Kumar Singh and Sanjay Pandey/MiD DAY
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