{"id":636991,"date":"2024-03-01T10:12:48","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T04:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=636991"},"modified":"2024-03-01T11:56:16","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T06:26:16","slug":"dgca-changes-rules-mandates-alcohol-test-for-25-airport-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/dgca-changes-rules-mandates-alcohol-test-for-25-airport-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"DGCA changes rules, mandates alcohol test for 25% airport employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Thursday stated that a minimum of 25 per cent of people working at Indian airports will have to undergo random alcohol tests from June 1 onwards. Currently, 10 per cent of workers are being tested daily. <\/p>\n<p>According to the DGCA, the aviation personnel under the ambit of this testing include aircraft maintenance engineers, other technically trained persons authorised to carry out maintenance of aircraft, vehicle drivers who drive fuelling and catering vehicles, equipment operators, aerobridge operators, marshallers, personnel manning apron control, ground handling services personnel as well as Air Traffic Control (ATC) personnel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Thursday stated that a minimum of 25 per cent of people working at Indian airports will have to undergo random alcohol tests from June 1 onwards. Currently, 10 per cent of workers are being tested daily. According to the DGCA, the aviation personnel under the ambit of this testing include aircraft maintenance engineers, other technically trained persons authorised to carry out maintenance of aircraft, vehicle drivers who drive fuelling and catering vehicles, equipment operators, aerobridge operators, marshallers, personnel manning apron control, ground handling services personnel as well as Air Traffic Control (ATC) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-636991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636991","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}