The Airports Authority of India (AAI) plans to
recruit 400 air traffic controllers this year, Union Minister Jayant Sinha said
today. In a written reply to the Lok Sabha, the Minister of State for Civil
Aviation said AAI recruited 200 air traffic controllers in 2015 and out of them
179 have joined.
Out of the 400 such people hired last year, 393
have joined AAI, he added. Further, AAI has initiated the process for
recruitment of 400 more air traffic control officers in 2017," Sinha said.
On whether the government is concerned over
shortage of air traffic controllers at airports, Sinha replied in the
affirmative.
In a separate written reply, the minister said
Air India operated the historical flight with an all-women crew ahead of
International Women's Day.
Air India has also applied for the Guinness
Book as well as Limca Book of Records in this regard," he said. The
flight, which took off from the national capital on February 27, returned on
March 3.
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