{"id":505302,"date":"2022-07-14T11:42:29","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T06:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=505302"},"modified":"2022-07-14T11:42:29","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T06:12:29","slug":"dgca-issues-clarifications-over-allegations-of-denying-pilot-license-to-transgender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/dgca-issues-clarifications-over-allegations-of-denying-pilot-license-to-transgender\/","title":{"rendered":"DGCA issues clarifications over allegations of &#8216;denying&#8217; pilot license to transgender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Wednesday issued a clarification on reports of Adam Harry, India&#8217;s first trans pilot from Kerala, who has been declared &#8216;unfit&#8217; by the regulator on medical grounds.<br \/>\nThe DGCA has issued a statement, undersigned by YS Dahiya, Group Captain, Directorate of Medical Services (Civil Aircrew), which clarified that Harry has never been denied a commercial pilot&#8217;s licence by DGCA.<br \/>\nIn fact, the aviation watchdog said there are no restrictions on transgender people in obtaining a license, subject to the individual ensuring compliance with relevant provisions of age, educational qualifications, medical fitness, and knowledge experience among others as specified in Aircraft Rules, 1937.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Wednesday issued a clarification on reports of Adam Harry, India&#8217;s first trans pilot from Kerala, who has been declared &#8216;unfit&#8217; by the regulator on medical grounds. The DGCA has issued a statement, undersigned by YS Dahiya, Group Captain, Directorate of Medical Services (Civil Aircrew), which clarified that Harry has never been denied a commercial pilot&#8217;s licence by DGCA. In fact, the aviation watchdog said there are no restrictions on transgender people in obtaining a license, subject to the individual ensuring compliance with relevant provisions of age, educational qualifications, medical fitness, and [&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":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-505302","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\/505302","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=505302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}