{"id":555009,"date":"2023-02-13T11:36:01","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T06:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=555009"},"modified":"2023-02-13T11:36:01","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T06:06:01","slug":"dgca-looks-to-expand-its-footprint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/dgca-looks-to-expand-its-footprint\/","title":{"rendered":"DGCA looks to expand its footprint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith 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,\u201d an official said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the directorate has offices in New Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Chennai, Bengaluru, Lucknow, Kanpur, Patiala, Patna, Bhubaneshwar, Guwahati, Bhopal, Hyderabad and Kochi. \u201cThe Hyderabad subregional office is also planned to be upgraded to a regional office,\u201d the official said, declining to be named.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s 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. \u201cWith 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,\u201d 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. \u201cThe Hyderabad [&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-555009","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\/555009","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=555009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}