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49 pc posts vacant in DGCA, but Minister says operations unaffected

New Delhi, Dec 8 (UNI) Nearly half the positions at the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA),the country’s aviation regulator, are lying vacant, but the government says this has had no impact on its functioning.

Minister of State for Civil Aviation Murlidhar Mohol told the Rajya Sabha in a written reply to an unstarred question on Monday that the DGCA has 1,630 sanctioned posts, out of which 794 (49 pc) are vacant. Similarly, the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS), which oversees aviation safety, has 203 vacancies out of 598 sanctioned posts.
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