67 overseas pilots employed by Indian airways: Govt informs Parliament | Newest Information India

As many as 67 overseas pilots are employed by totally different Indian airways, the federal government mentioned on Thursday.

This growth comes two days after the civil aviation ministry mentioned there was a scarcity of pilots forcing them to permit airways to rent overseas pilots.

“In line with the Directorate Normal of Civil Aviation (DGCA), there are round 10,000 pilots together with 67 overseas nationals employed with varied airways of India,” Dr Gen VK Singh (Retd), minister of state (Mos) for civil aviation, acknowledged in a written reply to Kanimozhi Karunanidhi of DMK.

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In line with business projections, there could also be a necessity for 1000 pilots each year in India over the subsequent 5 years, Singh mentioned.

“The annual requirement of economic pilots relies upon upon varied elements corresponding to monetary well being of an airline, airline growth plan and progress within the aviation sector,” he added.

Singh acknowledged that 15% of pilots in India are girls which is nearly thrice the worldwide common of 5%. He, nonetheless identified that at the moment, there isn’t a particular program within the authorities to encourage pilot coaching for ladies and backward lessons together with SC/STs.

“There are 35 DGCA accepted flight coaching organisations (FTOs) in India working at 53 bases,” he mentioned.

He additionally mentioned that knowledge from the Indian scheduled airways confirmed {that a} complete of 244 pilots had been recruited in 2021 and as on March 1 this 12 months, a complete of 15,896 common officers are employed in Airports Authority of India (AAI) posted throughout varied airports and stations.

In one more response, Singh acknowledged that the air site visitors knowledge for 2022-23 is estimated to be 12.3 million.

In the meantime, civil aviation secretary Rajiv Bansal had, on Tuesday, acknowledged that the demand of Boeing 777 plane pilots is such that for the primary time, after years, the federal government is permitting International Aircrew Short-term Authorization (FATA) pilots.

“Usually we don’t permit overseas pilots. However at the moment there may be demand however there isn’t a expert competency accessible. I’d go to the extent of claiming that this demand has occurred for the reason that Air India privatisation happened a 12 months in the past. That’s the reason, at present we don’t have any Boeing 777 plane pilots accessible within the nation and therefore we’re resorting to taking overseas pilots for a short while” he had mentioned talking in an aviation summit organised by CAPA India.