The Ministry of Civil Aviation in India is the nodal ministry responsible for the formulation of national policies and programmes for the development and regulation of civil aviation. It devises and implements schemes for the orderly growth and expansion of civil air transport in the country. Its functions also extend to overseeing airport facilities, air traffic services and carriage of passengers and goods by air. The ministry also administers the implementation of the Aircraft Act, 1934, Aircraft Rules, 1937 and is administratively responsible for the

Commission of Railway Safety The Commission of Railway Safety is a government commission of India. Subordinate to the Ministry of Civil Aviation, the commission is the rail safety authority in India, as directed by The Railways Act, 1989. The agency investigates seriou ...

Composition of the ministry

The ministry is under the charge of Union Minister

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and Minister of State

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. The secretary, an IAS officer, is administrative the head of the ministry and is assisted by one additional secretary and financial adviser, three joint secretaries, seven officers of the level of director/deputy secretary / financial controller and ten officers of the level of undersecretary. It is located at Rajiv Gandhi Bhavan,

Safdarjung Airport Safdarjung Airport is an airport in New Delhi, India, in the Safdarjung (Delhi), neighbourhood of the same name. Established during the British Raj as Willingdon Airfield, it started operations as an aerodrome in 1929, when it was India's secon ...

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Structure

The ministry has under its

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the following central government establishments:

Directorates

* Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA)Ministry of Civil Aviation
" Government of India. Retrieved on 20 February 2012.

Regulatory Bodies

Airports Economic Regulatory Authority Airports Economic Regulatory Authority (AERA) is a regulatory agency under Government of India to Regulation, regulate tariff and other expenditure & fees for major airports. It is a statutory body constituted under the Airports Economic Regulato ...

(AERA)

Attached Offices

Bureau of Civil Aviation Security The Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) is an attached office of the Ministry of Civil Aviation (India). It is the regulatory authority for civil aviation security in India. It is headed by an officer of the rank of Director general of Police ...

(BCAS) *

Commission of Railway Safety
." Ministry of Civil Aviation. Retrieved on 19 February 2012. - The commission is the rail safety authority in India, as directed by the 1989 Railways Act. The agency investigates rail accidents. * Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB)

Training Institutions

* Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Uran Akademi (IGRUA)

Statutory Bodies

Airports Authority of India The Airports Authority of India, or AAI, is a public sector enterprise under the ownership of the Ministry of Civil Aviation, Government of India. It is responsible for creating, upgrading, maintaining, and managing civil aviation infrastruct ...

Central Public Sector Undertakings

Pawan Hans Pawan Hans Limited is a central public sector undertaking based at Noida in Delhi NCR, India. It is under the ownership of Ministry of Civil Aviation, Government of India. It has cumulatively flown more than 1 million hours and has had ...

Aircraft projects

Civil Aviation Department RG-1 Rohini The Civil Aviation Department RG-1 Rohini is an Indian two-seat training sailplane of the 1960s. A high-winged wooden monoplane, with side-by-side seating;at least 107 were built. Development and design The Technical Centre of the Indian Civil ...

* Civil Aviation Department MG-1 *

Civil Aviation Department Mrigasheer __NOTOC__ The Civil Aviation Department ''Mrigasheer'' (मृगशिरा - " Orion") was a standard-class sailplane developed in India in the 1970s. It was an orthodox design with a high wing, slender, tapering fuselage, and conventional emp ...

Civil Aviation Department Revathi __NOTOC__ The Civil Aviation Department Revathi was a light utility aircraft designed in India principally for use by that country's flying clubs. Description The Revathi was a conventional, low-wing monoplane with fixed Conventional landing gea ...

* Hindustan Ardhra

List of ministers

List of Ministers of State

References

External links

* {{authority control

Civil Aviation Civil aviation is one of two major categories of flying, representing all non-military and non-state aviation, both private and commercial. Most of the countries in the world are members of the International Civil Aviation Organization and work ...