DGCA to issue licences to Air Traffic Controllers




NEW DELHI: Indian Air Traffic Controllers (ATCOs) will now be licensed by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), just like pilots. The aviation ministry took this decision after the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) recommended that air navigation services, which provide ATC service, should come under a separate regulatory agency. For the last 70 years, ATC's parent organisation - Airports Authority of India (AAI) - was doing their licensing too.



"The aviation ministry has decided that DGCA will do licensing of ATCOs. AAI has an outstanding ICAO-compliant training and certification system for ATC. We will now approve that and have surveillance over that system. The modalities of the licensing/certification process under DGCA is being worked out and will be finalised soon," said a senior DGCA officer. India currently has over 3,000 ATCOs.


Source: TOI

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