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Thursday, 7 August 2014

DGCA prods Tata-SIA to avoid licence delay

New Delhi: Call it the Narendra Modi impact. Government departments, which are often blamed for making business houses wait endlessly for clearances, are now chasing them to complete the paper work and let projects take off.

The directorate general of civil aviation (DGCA) has asked the upcoming Tata-Singapore Airlines JV carrier to ensure that its operational staff is present at all regulatory meetings to avoid delay in launching operation. DGCA deputy director Ved Prakash wrote a letter to Tata-SIA CEO Phee Teik Yeoh last week after an internal report said that the upcoming airline's operational team did not come for some meetings.


Aviation minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju is known for swift decisions. In less than two months as minister, he approved six new licences — three national and as many regional. Fearing that any delay in clearing an airline as prestigious as Tata-SIA may be criticized, DGCA took the unusual step of asking the JV partners to step on the gas.
Read news in full 06/08/14 Saurabh Sinha/Times of India

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