{"id":143,"date":"2007-05-24T10:57:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-24T10:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/avicareers\/?p=143"},"modified":"2007-05-24T10:57:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-24T10:57:00","slug":"india-faces-skills-shortage-in-aviation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2007\/05\/india-faces-skills-shortage-in-aviation.html","title":{"rendered":"India faces skills shortage in aviation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">London:<\/span> India needs to tackle a skills shortage in order to safeguard ambitious growth targets set for its rapidly expanding aviation market, Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel said on Wednesday.<br \/>&#8220;We have issues with a manpower shortage. We need a lot of pilots, a lot of engineers, a lot of technicians, a lot of ATCOs (air traffic control officers),&#8221; Patel said in an interview with Reuters, adding that a training centre was planned to help meet the challenge.<br \/>He has promised a blueprint in the coming months for the industry&#8217;s expansion to 2020, a plan which includes upgrading an airport at Nagpur to create a major hub for cargo in India.<br \/>Patel said India&#8217;s market is expected to need 400-500 business jets in the next five years and between 600 and 1,000 helicopters in the next five to seven years.<br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">23\/05\/07 Reuters India<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London: India needs to tackle a skills shortage in order to safeguard ambitious growth targets set for its rapidly expanding<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}