Panaji: Airports Authority of India (AAI) has hired around 2,000 women air traffic controllers across the country in recent years, bringing the percentage of women in the field up to 10% from 1% five years ago, Goa international airport director Bhupesh C H Negi said on Wednesday. He was speaking at an event organised to mark Girls in Aviation Day by the India chapter of Women in Aviation International and aviation major Lockheed Martin India to encourage girls to take up careers in the industry.
“AAI is taking tremendous steps to improve the working conditions of women deployed across airports,” Negi said, adding that AAI recently became the first airport operator in the country to start recruiting women in rescue and fire services. “A woman from Kolkata was the first rescue and fire fighter to be recruited,” he told girl students of Std XI and XII at St Andrew’s Higher Secondary School, Vasco. He said the industry is not limited to subjects like science, technology, engineering and mathematics and there were other areas including commercial, ground handling and ticketing that offered opportunities for women.
20/09/18 Times of India
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“AAI is taking tremendous steps to improve the working conditions of women deployed across airports,” Negi said, adding that AAI recently became the first airport operator in the country to start recruiting women in rescue and fire services. “A woman from Kolkata was the first rescue and fire fighter to be recruited,” he told girl students of Std XI and XII at St Andrew’s Higher Secondary School, Vasco. He said the industry is not limited to subjects like science, technology, engineering and mathematics and there were other areas including commercial, ground handling and ticketing that offered opportunities for women.
20/09/18 Times of India
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