Directorate General of Civil Aviation (India)

Directorate General of Civil Aviation (India)

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) is the Indian governmental regulatory body for civil aviation under the Ministry of Civil Aviation. This directorate investigates aviation accidents and incidents.[1] It is headquartered at Safdarjung Airport in New Delhi.[2]

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Regional offices

DGCA has fourteen Regional Airworthiness Offices (RAO) at Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Thiruvananthapuram, Bhopal, Lucknow, Patna, Bhubaneshwar, Kanpur, Guwahati and Patiala. It has also five Regional Air Safety offices located at Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata and Hyderabad. It has a Regional Research and Development Office located at Bangalore and the Gliding Centre at Pune[3].

Corruption charges in Fake license scam

The Director General of Civil Aviation faced charges of corruption in April 2011, after 14 pilots flying for several airlines were found to have forged their licenses. Additional director at the DGCA[4], Pradeep Kumar, and also Jyoti Bhattacharya and Mohammed K Ansari, dealing with cash and finances[5], have been arrested[6]. However, it was found that the files containing the records of several pilots had disappeared from the DGCA offices[7]. There were calls for a thorough investigation of the DGCA "top brass"[8].

References

  1. ^ http://www.anpac.it/download/Vari/08LEGBL01_IFALPA_Legal_Directory.pdf
  2. ^ "Home page." Directorate General of Civil Aviation. Retrieved on 9 June 2009. "Aurbindo Marg, Opp. Safdarjung Airport, New Delhi 110 003, INDIA "
  3. ^ "About DGCA". Directorate General of Civil Aviation website. http://dgca.nic.in/dgca/dgca-ind.htm. Retrieved 2009-11-10. 
  4. ^ http://www.zeenews.com/news695689.html
  5. ^ http://www.mid-day.com/news/2011/apr/070411-fake-pilot-scam-two-DGCA-officials.htm
  6. ^ http://www.rediff.com/business/report/license-scam-dgca-official-pilot-among-4-held/20110326.htm
  7. ^ http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-04-19/india/29446653_1_three-pilots-swaran-singh-talwar-syed-habib-ali
  8. ^ Bhattacharyya, Abhijit. "SCANDALS OF THE SKIES." The Daily Telegraph. "That the corruption and greed run deep can be gauged by the fact that the files of the pilots under the scanner have gone missing."

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