Civil Aviation Minister introduces Bharatiya Vayuyan Vidheyak in Lok Sabha
Jul 31, 2024
New Delhi [India], July 31 : A bill to provide for provide for design, manufacture and maintenance of aircraft and related equipment and empower the central government to make requisite rules concerning the aviation sector was introduced in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday.
The Bharatiya Vayuyan Vidheyak, 2024, was introduced by Civil Aviation Minister Kinjarapu Rammohan Naidu.
The bill seeks to empower the Central Government to regulate the issuance of Radio Telephone Operator (Restricted) Certificate and licence to provide for ease of business, make rules to implement the Convention relating to international civil aviation and the other matters relating to civil aviation security.
It also seeks to empower the Central Government to issue orders in emergencies in the interest of public safety or tranquilly. The bill provides for appeals against the matters relating to compensation, licence, certificate or approval and adjudication of penalties.
The bill seeks to repeal the Aircraft Act, 1934.
The Aircraft Act, 1934 was enacted to make better provision for the control of the manufacture, possession, use, operation, sale, import and export of aircraft.
According to the statement of objects and reasons of the bill, the regulation of civil air transport within the territory and the airspace above India, including regulation of international air services of national and foreign air carriers is the sovereign function of the Government of India and the same is given effect to under Aircrafts Act.
It said the Aircraft Act, 1934 has been amended several times to enhance safety, oversight and to meet requirements for sustainable growth of aviation sector and to give effect to the provisions of international conventions.
"As a result of numerous amendments over a period of ninety years, a need is felt to address the ambiguities and confusion experienced by the stakeholders, to remove redundancies, to enable ease of doing business and to provide for manufacture and maintenance in the aviation sector and to re-enact the aforesaid Act in the form of a Bill, namely, the Bharatiya Vayuyan Vidheyak, 2024," it said.
Objecting to the introduction of the bill, RSP member NK Premachandran said the title of the bill should be in English.
