Indian Aviation Academy to train African professionals

Chennai: More than 100 aviation professionals from African countries will be trained at the Indian Aviation Academy, New Delhi, in operation and management of airports this year, according to Dinesh Kumar, director of the academy, which is the training wing of the Airports Authority of India.
The AAI set up the academy because a majority of its employees are highly experienced in airport operations and there is a need to train recruits as well as provide orientation programmes for existing staff as airport operations and management has changed over the years.
The IAC, which offers more than 120 courses, trained 3,500 people last year, said Mr. Kumar. The programmes were offered to foreign nationals as mandated by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO).
The training programme would be done as part of an agreement that India signed with the African Union and the duration would be 10 days.
24/06/12 The Hindu