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Shortage of ATCs in aviation sector

There is a shortage of Air Traffic Controllers (ATC) in the aviation sector, government informed the Rajya Sabha today. - Air passenger traffic in H1 2009 down by about 8 per cent - Air passenger traffic in first half down by about 8% - Top guns to sit on Air India intl advisory board - Rs 5,000 cr loss expected for NACIL last fiscal: Patel - WAPL launches Airbus A320 course - Civil aviation severely hit by economic slump: Survey "At present a total number of 1630 Air Traffic Controllers are in position against the sanctioned strength of 2107," Minister of State for Civil Aviation Praful Patel said in a written reply to a question. He said the training centre at Allahabad has adequate capacity and infrastructure to meet current and future requirement of training of . With the objective of enhancing the capacity, an additional training centre has been established at Hyderabad to expedite the training process of ATCOs, he added.


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