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The Ministry of Civil Aviation (naagar vimaanan mantraalay) 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.
The Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) of Government of India is the nodal Ministry responsible for the formulation of national policies and programmes for development and regulation of civilian aviation, and for devising and implementing schemes for the orderly growth and expansion of civilian air transport.
Construction of the first civil airports at Calcutta, Allahabad and Bombay started in 1924. In April 1927, a department of civil aviation was set-up with the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) set-up in 1931. [3] The Aero Club of India was established in 1927 and the Madras Flying Club in 1930.
Rajiv Gandhi Bhawan. The Airports Authority of India (AAI) is a statutory body under the ownership of the Ministry of Civil Aviation, Government of India.It is responsible for creating, upgrading, maintaining, and managing civil aviation infrastructure in India.
In January 1978, the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) was established as a department of the DGCA. As a result of the 1985 bombing of Air India Flight 182, on 1 April 1987 the BCAS became an independent agency of the Ministry of Civil Aviation. [9]
Kinjarapu Ram Mohan Naidu (born 18 December 1987) is an Indian politician who is currently serving as the 33rd Minister of Civil Aviation since June 2024. He represents the Srikakulam constituency in the Lok Sabha and has been elected in the 16th, 17th, and 18th Lok Sabha.
[5] [6] The Ministry officially created the no-fly list on 8 September 2017 and notified rules concerning the list. The DGCA revised relevant sections of the Civil Aviation Requirement (CAR Section 3, Series M, Part Vl on "Handling of Unruly Passengers") in accordance with the provisions of the 1963 Tokyo Convention. [7]
Rajesh Nirwan, a 1992 batch IPS officer of Rajasthan cadre, has been appointed as the Director General of Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) in the Ministry of Civil Aviation. BCAS is a wing of the Civil Aviation Ministry looking after civil aviation security. His appointment was cleared by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet headed ...