New Delhi: A bill to replace the DGCA by a new regulator for the Indian aviation sector, the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), was introduced in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday.
The Civil Aviation Authority of India Bill 2013, which was introduced by Minister of State for Civil Aviation K C Venugopal, would provide the CAA full operational and financial autonomy to regulate all issues concerning civil aviation safety and protect the interests of consumers in a fast-changing aviation scenario.
It would be empowered to levy fees and charges under the Aircraft Act 1934 and undertake its own recruitment of professionals, which is currently carried by the UPSC for the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA).
The bill was brought by the government after the UN-body International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) and the US regulator Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) carried out audits of the DGCA last year and pointed towards the "unsatisfactory situation" faced by it.
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