DGCA officers ‘fudged’ papers to give free air tickets, probe ordered

New Delhi: Delhi Police has been asked to lodge an FIR against top officials of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) for issuing false certificates and misusing a travel facility to allow DGCA officials and even private individuals to fly free.
The request for the FIR has been made by the chief vigilance officer of the DGCA, which is probing large-scale misuse of this facility by its officials. The civil aviation ministry’s vigilance wing is examining documents of the past three years.
The facility allows officials to fly free on any Indian airline to check for “safety of aircraft operations” on the production of certificates or ‘Aeronautical Information Circulars (AICs)’.
As per rules, said a senior DGCA official, AICs can be signed only by officers of the level of deputy director general or joint director general. However, AICs were being signed by lower-level functionaries, who would even sign for themselves, he said.
30/05/12 Ajmer Singh/Indian Express

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Categories: Indian Aviation- In General May 2012