PM Modi reviews strategies for making India's civil aviation sector more efficient

Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a comprehensive meeting to review the strategies that could help in making India’s Civil Aviation sector more efficient.

It was decided that the Indian Air Space should be effectively used in such a manner that the flying time is reduced benefitting the traveling public and also helping the airlines to save costs in close co-operation with the Department of Military Affairs.

For generation of more revenue as well as to bring in more efficiency at the airports, the Ministry of Civil Aviation has been asked to expedite the process of handing over of six more airports on PPP basis, by commencing the tender process within three



months.

The e-DGCA project was also reviewed during the meeting. This project would bring in more transparency in the DGCA’s office and help all stakeholders by reducing the processing time for various licenses or permissions.

In the meeting, it was also decided that all reform initiatives taken by the Ministry of Civil Aviation and the organizations under it should proceed in a time-bound manner.

The meeting was attended by the Home Minister Amit Shah, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Puri, Minister of State for Finance Anurag Thakur and senior officials of the Government of India.