Vice President of India, Mr. Venkaiah Naidu
on Thursday asked the Civil Aviation Ministry to evolve stringent security
related norms for aviation sector to completely plug of any possibility of air
traffic accidents and make sure that such norms also succeed in ensuring total
air safety for entire air and cargo traffic.
He also asked the government to substantially
reduce gaps between scheduled and non-scheduled air lines as also make sure
that the idle airports become efficiently operational with expanding regional
connectivity.
Inaugurating 2nd Aero Expo India 2017 under
aegis of PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry here today, Mr. Naidu observed
that demonetisation and GST would ultimately expand the economy exponentially
in course of time and push it to many many trillion economy.
“The issue of air safety and completely
accident free air traffic should be restored with stringent norms in place so
that flying and cargo movements are optimised though the government has taken
the twin issue with utmost sincerely but lot more needs to be done on this
front so that accidents in civil aviation become a thing of past”, said the
Vice President adding that the Modi government is eliminating red tape
replacing them with red carpet.
The another issue on which the Vice President
of India made his observations emphatic, emphasizing that the hiatus between
scheduled and non-scheduled air lines needs to be bridged for further expansion
of the civil aviation industry which has already grown at 26.6 per cent year on
year adding that India and its economy is in for dollar’s trillions and
trillions size.
With reforms such as demonetization and GST,
the Indian economy would not only leap frog towards digitalization and cashless
economy but also make it an economy without an element of black money into it.
In his welcome remarks, President, PHD
Chamber, Mr. Anil Khaitan pointed out emphasizing that though the government of
the day is pushing structural reforms and that civil aviation industry has been
growing at a double digit rate, the government needs to become more active and
pro-active to further push for the scheduled second generation reforms.
Sr. Vice President, PHD Chamber, Mr. Rajeev
Talwar in his remarks asked the government to put up cargo airport in a State
of Haryana and Rajasthan and make preparations to create at least two
international airports in each state and UTs.
Among others who were present on the occasion
consisted of Minister of Civil Aviation, Mr. Ashok Gajapathiraju Pusapati;
Minister of State, Ministry of Civil Aviation, Mr. Jayant Sinha; Vice
President, PHD Chamber, Mr. D K Aggarwal and its Chairman of the Civil Aviation
Committee, Mr. K Narayana Rao, Co-Chairmen, Civil Aviation Committee of the
Chamber Mr. Bhupesh Joshi and Mr. Vipin Vohra including its Secretary General
and Principal Director, Mr. Saurabh Sanyal and Mr. Yogesh Srivastav.
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