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

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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 (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 Poli ...

(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 Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Uran Akademi (IGRUA) is a public pilot training institute located at Fursatganj Airfield in Uttar Pradesh, India. It was established in 1985. It is an autonomous institution and comes under the Ministry of Civil Aviati ...

(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

Aircraft projects

* Civil Aviation Department RG-1 Rohini * Civil Aviation Department MG-1 * Civil Aviation Department Mrigasheer * Civil Aviation Department Revathi *

Hindustan Ardhra __NOTOC__ The Hindustan Ardhra was a sailplane designed in India for pilot training by the government's Civil Aviation Department in the late 1970s as the ATS-1 Ardhra. It was a two-seat aircraft of conventional configuration and wooden construc ...

List of ministers

List of Ministers of State

References

External links

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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 ...