Three years after the proposal was first mooted, the Cabinet decided to replace the Directorate General of Civil Aviation with an independent regulator to be called the Civil Aviation Authority or CAA. Government sources confirmed that the CAA Bill will now be sent for Parliamentary approval. The regulator will provide a transparent system of policing airlines that will include pricing of seats, ensuring safety, managing standards of air service navigation operators and of other civil aviation facilities. Airports will continue to be regulated by the Airports Economic Regulatory Authority. “The CAA will be an autonomous organisation and will be out of the civil aviation ministry’s purview with powers to penalise and fine. It will be financially independent and be given powers to recruit,” said an official.

Source: Indian Express

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