Mumbai: Expressing concern over the acute shortage of manpower in the critical area of air navigation services (ANS), Airports Authority Officers Association has shot off a letter to aviation minister Ajit Singh.
Airports Authority of India (AAI) board meeting will be held in New Delhi tomorrow.
"The association is intending to get your directives to the chairman for taking up shortage of manpower in ANS as top priority in the board meet and it should not be diluted in the wake of austerity measures," the association said.
Even the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) lays importance on air navigation planning of individual states and is establishing and updating the individual air navigation plans every three years, the letter said.
"However, India has not taken stock of air navigation services, which comprise air traffic management (ATM), and communication, navigation and surveillance (CNS), manpower for the past 10 years. The manpower issue seems negligible on the part of the ministry to some extent," it said.
Read News In Full 19/09/13 PTI/Business Standard
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