{"id":294427,"date":"2019-09-30T13:03:37","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T07:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=294427"},"modified":"2019-09-30T13:03:37","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T07:33:37","slug":"online-petition-against-dgcas-power-to-suspend-pilot-licenses-sans-inquiry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/online-petition-against-dgcas-power-to-suspend-pilot-licenses-sans-inquiry\/","title":{"rendered":"Online petition against DGCA&#8217;s power to suspend pilot licenses sans inquiry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: The director-general of civil aviation\u2019s power to suspend a pilot\u2019s licence for any period of time should be removed, says an online petition filed by a senior pilot on Thursday.<br \/>\nThe petition titled, &#8220;Remove DGCA\u2019s sweeping powers for pilot\u2019s suspension&#8221; put up on change.org by Capt Amit Singh says that licenses should be suspended only in cases of &#8220;gross negligence, wilful violations and destructive acts&#8221;.<br \/>\nUnder the current provisions of Indian Aircraft Rules, 1937, Rule 19 (3), a pilot\u2019s license can be suspended for any period of time if &#8220;the central government (the director-general in this case) is satisfied that there are sufficient grounds to do so&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: The director-general of civil aviation\u2019s power to suspend a pilot\u2019s licence for any period of time should be removed, says an online petition filed by a senior pilot on Thursday. The petition titled, &#8220;Remove DGCA\u2019s sweeping powers for pilot\u2019s suspension&#8221; put up on change.org by Capt Amit Singh says that licenses should be suspended only in cases of &#8220;gross negligence, wilful violations and destructive acts&#8221;. Under the current provisions of Indian Aircraft Rules, 1937, Rule 19 (3), a pilot\u2019s license can be suspended for any period of time if &#8220;the central government (the director-general in this case) is satisfied [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}