In a
significant relief to Indian airline carriers, the International Civil Aviation
Organization (ICAO), a international regulating whole body, has said that it no
longer recognizes "significant safety concerns" in India's air travel
functions.
The
ICAO took the decision after about a weeklong review of the Directorate General
of Municipal Aircraft (DGCA) and the regulating methods in India's aviation
industry.
India
is also up for a review by the Federal Aircraft Management (FAA) next month.
Mishra didn't intricate on the second review. The ICAO clean chit will help
force India's case more positively when FAA performs its review. The ICAO had
in Dec 2012 said it recognized issues with respect to the ability of the nation
to manage airways under its power.
In
the ICAO review, the regulator had put Native Indian with the much lesser
western world such as Honduras, Haiti, Hungary and Congo. Had ICAO's issues not
been resolved , it could have lead to a loss of life knell for the Indian
aviation, said experts.
The
ICAO mainly had two issues : one about the air operator's certification not
being in line with ICAO recommendations and the point that the DGCA had no
qualified procedure for accepting variations and maintenance of aircraft done
overseas. Both of these have been resolved, said Mishra. In another important
shift, the Indian government will soon present a bill in Parliament to
substitute the current regulating whole body with the Municipal Aircraft
Authority, that will have significantly greater financial and functional
independence to control the aviation industry.
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