New Delhi: India’s ranking in the overall aviation safety score given by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) is set to improve significantly.
Following an audit last year, the United Nation’s aviation arm had lowered India’s “effective implementation” (EI) from 65.82% to 57.44% against world average of 62% mainly on the issue of air traffic controllers’ (ATCO) licensing. An ICAO team again audited the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) from November 12-21 to see if the shortcomings had been addressed to make flying safer, and before leaving, told the Indian authorities that the country’s EI score could rise to 74%.
The overall EI figure is arrived at as an aggregate of individual scores in eight fields like legislation, organisation, personnel licensing and airworthiness of aircraft. This score gives an overall picture of how a country is complying with global aviation safety practices under different heads.
Asked how the ICAO audit went, DGCA chief BS Bhullar said: “ICAO team have concluded their validation process of DGCA oversight system in areas of legislation, organisation, air navigation services, aerodromes and accident investigation last Wednesday (Nov 21). As per their protocol, they only share verbally the provisional outcome at the end of the exercise. Provisional result is encouraging and likely to improve our EI by about 17%. This may further go up significantly once ATCO licensing is completed by DGCA as per mandate of Ministry. These are provisional results which need to be ratified by ICAO HQ team. This process takes about three months.”
25/11/18 Saurabh Sinha/Times of India
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Following an audit last year, the United Nation’s aviation arm had lowered India’s “effective implementation” (EI) from 65.82% to 57.44% against world average of 62% mainly on the issue of air traffic controllers’ (ATCO) licensing. An ICAO team again audited the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) from November 12-21 to see if the shortcomings had been addressed to make flying safer, and before leaving, told the Indian authorities that the country’s EI score could rise to 74%.
The overall EI figure is arrived at as an aggregate of individual scores in eight fields like legislation, organisation, personnel licensing and airworthiness of aircraft. This score gives an overall picture of how a country is complying with global aviation safety practices under different heads.
Asked how the ICAO audit went, DGCA chief BS Bhullar said: “ICAO team have concluded their validation process of DGCA oversight system in areas of legislation, organisation, air navigation services, aerodromes and accident investigation last Wednesday (Nov 21). As per their protocol, they only share verbally the provisional outcome at the end of the exercise. Provisional result is encouraging and likely to improve our EI by about 17%. This may further go up significantly once ATCO licensing is completed by DGCA as per mandate of Ministry. These are provisional results which need to be ratified by ICAO HQ team. This process takes about three months.”
25/11/18 Saurabh Sinha/Times of India
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