DGCA to recruit 130 personnel next month

New Delhi: There is finally some good news for Indian aviation. The Director General of Civil Aviation will recruit 130 personnel to fill in the various vacant posts in the Air worthiness stream. The process of recruitment and joining would finish by next month itself.
Confirming the news to Headlines Today the DG Arun Mishra said that soon DGCA would present itself in a better form to the world. He however played down the threat of downgrade by the Federal Aviation Administration and asserted that regular exercises and audits were necessary for improvement. Furthermore he added that there was never a situation when the passenger safety was compromised.
But then this is just the beginning 130 recruitments doesn't mean that the problems end for DGCA.There are equal number of vacant posts in other streams as well that would need to be filled as well. The sanctioned strength of the DGCA is more than 500 but then the current strength is just around 300.
Read news in full 24/10/13 Pankaj Upadhyay/India Today