New Delhi: A bill to replace DGCA by a new aviation regulatory body -- the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) -- with full operational and financial autonomy, is likely to be tabled in Parliament in the upcoming Budget Session.
"We are preparing a Cabinet note on creating the CAA. We have sent a draft of the proposal to the Law Ministry. We hope we will be able to table the bill in the second half of this Budget Session itself," Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh told reporters here.
Maintaining that passenger and freight traffic and aircraft movement have grown manifold in the past six years, he said the strength of DGCA, which regulates all these activities, had gone up only in "a miniscule manner" primarily due to the "cumbersome" recruitment process under the UPSC.
20/02/13 PTI/Daily News & Analysis
