Amid concerns raised by the US-based aviation regulator the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) over the current civil aviation scenario in India, a team of Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) officials visited the US to meet with the FAA officials last week.
A few months back, the FAA had noted that the DGCA was not meeting its standards on safety and other administrative issues. Following this, a team of DGCA officials, accompanied by a senior official from the Indian embassy in Washington met the FAA officials and presented the actual facts and figures. The officials convinced the FAA to take back its decision demote India from category 1 to category 2 country in the aviation sector, the civil aviation ministry said in a press statement.
“Following the presentation and discussion, FAA was convinced that there has been no compromise on DGCA’s function of continuous oversight of the industry. FAA was fully satisfied with the DGCA’s functioning in various regulatory areas relating to safety,” the ministry said in the statement.
It further added that the FAA saw no requirement, as of now, to start any consultation process in the direction of conducting a fresh International Aviation Safety Assessment (IASA) of the DGCA by the FAA. They have also reiterated that India would continue to enjoy the privileges of Category I country, the ministry said.
Earlier this year, the FAA had raised doubt on the effectiveness of DGCA’s oversight of the Indian aviation industry. The FAA had in fact warned that if it is established that there is indeed any compromise on the safety and other issues by the DGCA then it would be forced to conduct an IASA of the Indian aviation regulator.
The FAA had also cautioned that if the fears come true then India’s aviation sector could be degraded from category 1 to category 2.
The ministry said that DGCA in its detailed response to FAA, which was based on actual facts, figures and the ‘annual surveillance programme’, allayed all the doubts and got a clearance from FAA.
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