{"id":520277,"date":"2022-09-07T11:52:56","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T06:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=520277"},"modified":"2022-09-07T11:52:56","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T06:22:56","slug":"dgca-issues-draft-rules-on-atc-staff-work-shifts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/dgca-issues-draft-rules-on-atc-staff-work-shifts\/","title":{"rendered":"DGCA issues draft rules on ATC staff work shifts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Air traffic controllers will be allowed to work for only a specified number of hours at a stretch to avoid fatigue at work, similar to limitations applied to air crew, India\u2019s aviation regulator decided on Tuesday to be in sync with international safety standards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have issued a draft CAR (civil aviation requirement) as of now. The final regulation will be issued after extensive public consultation,\u201d said Arun Kumar, director general of civil aviation. \u201cWe have tried to align it to International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) standards and have incorporated the global best practices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Section 9 of the draft CAR, which relates to airspace and air navigation services standards, puts a stress on duty hour limitations and mandatory rest for air traffic controllers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air traffic controllers will be allowed to work for only a specified number of hours at a stretch to avoid fatigue at work, similar to limitations applied to air crew, India\u2019s aviation regulator decided on Tuesday to be in sync with international safety standards. \u201cWe have issued a draft CAR (civil aviation requirement) as of now. The final regulation will be issued after extensive public consultation,\u201d said Arun Kumar, director general of civil aviation. \u201cWe have tried to align it to International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) standards and have incorporated the global best practices.\u201d Section 9 of the draft CAR, [&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":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-520277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520277","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=520277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}