Kolkata: The Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) is pushing through
concrete plans to overhaul the aviation sector barely a month into the
new government's term, while also taking steps to address the downgrade
of India's safety ranking by US authorities (TTG Asia e-Daily, February
4, 2014).
Airports of Indore, Bhopal and Raipur will be allowed international flights by 1Q2015, while the Airports Authority of India has identified 50 airports across India to be built on a low-cost model. A contract for the modernisation of Port Blair airport in Andaman & Nicobar Islands will be awarded soon.
Rita Dhanwatay, director of Nagpur-based Ritz Safari, commented: “More international flights arriving to Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities will cut costs for inbound tourists.
MoCA has also engaged Washington-based Wicks Group to aid the upgrade in India’s air safety administrations and operations over a one-year period, and ordered the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) to create IT platforms for e-governance and digitise most of DGCA’s operations.
Read news in full 20/06/14 Shekhar Niyogi/TTG Asia
Airports of Indore, Bhopal and Raipur will be allowed international flights by 1Q2015, while the Airports Authority of India has identified 50 airports across India to be built on a low-cost model. A contract for the modernisation of Port Blair airport in Andaman & Nicobar Islands will be awarded soon.
Rita Dhanwatay, director of Nagpur-based Ritz Safari, commented: “More international flights arriving to Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities will cut costs for inbound tourists.
MoCA has also engaged Washington-based Wicks Group to aid the upgrade in India’s air safety administrations and operations over a one-year period, and ordered the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) to create IT platforms for e-governance and digitise most of DGCA’s operations.
Read news in full 20/06/14 Shekhar Niyogi/TTG Asia
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