{"id":1650,"date":"2012-06-26T21:22:36","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T21:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/?p=1650"},"modified":"2012-06-26T21:22:36","modified_gmt":"2012-06-26T21:22:36","slug":"ministry-wants-ib-lens-on-key-dgca-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2012\/06\/ministry-wants-ib-lens-on-key-dgca-official.html","title":{"rendered":"Ministry wants IB lens on key DGCA official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\">New Delhi:<\/span> The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has given the job of monitoring India\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 40-odd flying schools to a former flying school chief whom the Civil Aviation Ministry wants scrutinised by the Intelligence Bureau (IB), and who has been repeatedly red-flagged by the Home Ministry since 2002.<br \/>\nCapt Yashraj Tongia, a former managing director of Yash Air, the country\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s largest flying academy, took charge at DGCA this month as director, flying training.<br \/>\nThe training chief at India\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s aviation safety regulator is responsible for regulating standards at flying academies, including granting approvals to schools and instructors. Following the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcfake\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 pilot licence scandal, the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) asked DGCA to probe alleged irregularities committed by flying schools.<br \/>\nThe Union Public Service Commission recommended Tongia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s appointment in February 2011. When the appointment was delayed, Tongia moved the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) saying the delay was due to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153extraneous, arbitrary and malafide reasons\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993366;\">25\/06\/12 Ajmer Singh<\/span>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/www.indianexpress.com\/news\/ministry-wants-ib-lens-on-key-dgca-official\/966397\/\" target=\"_blank\">Indian Express<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has given the job of monitoring India\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 40-odd flying schools to<\/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-1650","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\/1650","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=1650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}