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Jyotiraditya M Scindia inaugurates Heli Summit 2023 and UDAN 5.2

Jyotiraditya M Scindia inaugurates Heli Summit 2023 and UDAN 5.2: Jyotiraditya M. Scindia, the Minister of Civil Aviation and Steel, inaugurated the Heli Summit 2023 and also unveiled RCS UDAN 5.2 and the HeliSewa-App in Madhya Pradesh. Daily Current Affairs Quiz: July 2023 Theme “Reaching the Last Mile: Regional Connectivity through Helicopters & Small Aircraft”. The broad objectives […]

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UDAN 5.0 launched by Civil Aviation Ministry to further enhance connectivity to remote areas

UDAN 5.0 launched by Civil Aviation Ministry: UDAN 5.0, The Regional Connectivity Scheme, popularly known as UDAN, has reached the fifth stage of its implementation, with the goal of enhancing connectivity to the nation’s rural and regional communities. The Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) on April 21 began the process of accepting airline proposals for

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Odisha’s Jeypore Airport gets license from DGCA

Odisha’s Jeypore Airport gets license from DGCA: The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) granted Jeypore Airport the license to carry out commercial flight operations under the regional connectivity scheme. The Ministry of Civil Aviation has described it as a milestone. The airport is 33km northwest of Koraput town and 500km southwest of Bhubaneswar. The airport will now be able to handle scheduled

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Govt notifies Certification Scheme for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (Drones)- to boost indigenous manufacturing

The Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) has notified a drone certification scheme to ensure minimum safety and quality requirements so as to boost indigenous manufacturing. The drone certification scheme was notified on January 26, 2022, under Rule 7 of the liberalized Drone Rules, 2021 will help in simpler, faster and transparent type-certification of drones. The

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Jyotiraditya Scindia inaugurates first direct flight on Guwahati-Pune route

Union Minister of Civil Aviation Jyotiraditya M. Scindia, MoS Civil Aviation & MoRTH, General Dr. V K Singh (Retd.) flagged off the first direct flight of Indigo airlines on Guwahati (Assam) to Pune (Maharashtra) route. Chandra Mohan Patowary, Minister for Transport, Industries & Commerce, Skill Development, Welfare of Minorities, Government of Assam, Queen Oja, Member

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Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia launches e-GCA

Union Minister of Civil Aviation, Jyotiraditya M. Scindia has launched GCA (e-Governance in Directorate General of Civil Aviation). This project has been aimed at automation of the processes and functions of DGCA, with 99 services covering about 70% of the DGCA work being implemented in the initial phases, and 198 services to be covered in other phases. It is a

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Civil Aviation Minister flags off the direct flight on the Shillong-Dibrugarh route

Union Minister of Civil Aviation, Jyotiraditya M. Scindia virtually flagged off the first direct flight on the Shillong – Dibrugarh route under Regional Connectivity Scheme – Ude Desh Ka Aam Naagrik (RCS-UDAN). Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Scindia said, Shillong is one of the highest and wettest places in the world and the place is important not only

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Ministry of Civil Aviation notified liberalised Drone Rules, 2021

The Ministry of Civil Aviation published the Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Rules, 2021. Based on the feedback, the Government has decided to repeal the UAS Rules, 2021 and replace the same with the liberalised Drone Rules, 2021. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Key features of Drone Rules 2021 Several approvals abolished: unique authorisation number, unique

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Ministry of Civil Aviation grants drone use permission to 10 organizations

Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) and Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) have granted conditional exemption from Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Rules, 2021 to 10 organizations. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The detail of these permissions include: Government of Karnataka: Drone based aerial survey for creating urban property ownership records in Bengaluru National Health Mission,

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Permission to drone use to Directorate of Urban Local Bodies

Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) and Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) have granted conditional exemption from Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Rules, 2021 to Directorate of Urban Local Bodies (DULB), Haryana. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The exemption allows the aerial survey and photogrammetry of centrally protected monuments in collaboration with the Archaeological Survey of

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