New Delhi: Complaining of "gross manpower deficiency" in air traffic management services, an AAI employees' outfit has asked civil aviation regulator DGCA not to allow commission of any new navigation facility without deployment of adequate trained staff.
In a letter to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation, the CNS Officers' Guild -- an association of Communication, Navigation and Surveillance (CNS) personnel-- said "no new or additional facilities should be allowed to be commissioned without trained and adequate CNS manpower to man it."
The Guild also demanded a review of the commissioning of all air traffic management facilities in past three to four years, in wake of "gross deficiency of CNS manpower."
India may have modernised its air traffic management services but lack of adequate manpower was raising major air safety risk, as the present staff were overburdened and were under tremendous stress and fatigue due to long working hours to keep the facilities functioning.
Of the 3,250 sanctioned posts, about 840 posts in the CNS wing of the state-run airport operator the Airports Authority of India (AAI) that provides navigational services, were lying vacant, according to the Guild.
Read news in full 16/10/13 PTI/Business Standard
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