India’s aviation regulator will soon open offices in six more cities to increase surveillance of air safety in addition to the 14 cities where it currently operates, officials said.It will also recruit additional staff to boost regulatory oversight, they said.
“With an aim to monitor aviation activities, by December the DGCA (Directorate General of Civil Aviation) will be functional at six more places, including Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Agartala, Amritsar, Nagpur and Dehradun,” an official said on Friday.
Currently, the directorate has offices in New Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Chennai, Bengaluru, Lucknow, Kanpur, Patiala, Patna, Bhubaneshwar, Guwahati, Bhopal, Hyderabad and Kochi. “The Hyderabad subregional office is also planned to be upgraded to a regional office,” the official said, declining to be named.
