NEW DELHI: This is possibly the worst kept oldest secret of Indian aviation \u2014 officials of the regulatory agency conducting checks or deciding on airlines, airports and other agencies where their close relatives are employed. Whether it was\/is senior Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) officials whose children were\/are pilots or in other positions, it used to be a cosy club of those checking and those being checked.
\nHowever, for the first time a formal attempt has been made to check this issue by the DGCA chief Arun Kumar who on Wednesday issued a written order asking officials to avoid \u201cconflict of interest\u201d situations. Kumar has warned of strict action against employees who indulge in such practices.
\n\u201cAvoidance of \u2018conflict of interest\u2019 is a sine qua non of good governance. Instances of DGCA officers participating in meetings\/spot checks have come to notice in which this golden rule has been given a go-bye. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NEW DELHI: This is possibly the worst kept oldest secret of Indian aviation \u2014 officials of the regulatory agency conducting checks or deciding on airlines, airports and other agencies where their close relatives are employed. Whether it was\/is senior Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) officials whose children were\/are pilots or in other positions, it used to be a cosy club of those checking and those being checked. However, for the first time a formal attempt has been made to check this issue by the DGCA chief Arun Kumar who on Wednesday issued a written order asking officials to avoid […]<\/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":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302146","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=302146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}