New Delhi: With the bill to establish the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) unlikely to be tabled in the upcoming Budget session of the Parliament, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) is looking at hiring Flight Operations Inspectors (FOIs) at market-determined rates on a contractual basis to stave off a threat of downgrade by US-based Federal Aviation Authority (FAA).
FAA, in audits conducted in September and subsequently in December 2013, has expressed severe concerns over the lack of full-time FOIs in the DGCA. The recruitments being done now are important as in case of a downgrade by FAA, Indian airlines will not be able to increase the number of flights to the US and additional checks will be imposed on existing flights of Air India and Jet Airways.
“We have hired 20 FOIs and the process will continue till we complete hiring 65 FOIs. The annual expenditure in salaries for the recruitments would be Rs 40 crore. The FOIs are being hired on contractual basis with government sanction,” said a senior official in the DGCA.
31/12/13 Sharmistha Mukherjee/Business Standard
To Read the News in full at Source, Click the Headline
FAA, in audits conducted in September and subsequently in December 2013, has expressed severe concerns over the lack of full-time FOIs in the DGCA. The recruitments being done now are important as in case of a downgrade by FAA, Indian airlines will not be able to increase the number of flights to the US and additional checks will be imposed on existing flights of Air India and Jet Airways.
“We have hired 20 FOIs and the process will continue till we complete hiring 65 FOIs. The annual expenditure in salaries for the recruitments would be Rs 40 crore. The FOIs are being hired on contractual basis with government sanction,” said a senior official in the DGCA.
31/12/13 Sharmistha Mukherjee/Business Standard
