{"id":42,"date":"2006-12-11T08:41:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-11T08:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/avicareers\/?p=42"},"modified":"2006-12-11T08:41:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-11T08:41:00","slug":"iaf-manages-to-curb-exodus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2006\/12\/iaf-manages-to-curb-exodus.html","title":{"rendered":"IAF manages to curb exodus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">New Delhi<\/span>: The IAF policy to tighten screws on pilots scrambling to join the much-greener pastures in civilian airlines has had the desired effect: As compared to almost 300 pilots who left the force between 2002 and 2005, only about 20 have managed to do so this year.<br \/>Latest figures show the new measures have led to a situation wherein the force is now only 210 short of its authorised strength of 3,278 pilots.<br \/>As was first reported by Times Of India, haemorrhaging under the onslaught of the booming civil aviation sector, IAF had &#8220;tightened controls&#8221;on the &#8220;premature release&#8221;of its pilots towards mid-2005.<br \/>This had come after 72 pilots proceeded on &#8220;premature retirement&#8221; in 2003, followed by 116 in 2004, and another 58 in 2005. Swinging into action, IAF chief Air Chief Marshal S P Tyagi had overturned his predecessor S Krisnaswamy&#8217;s &#8220;liberal policy&#8221;of releasing &#8220;disinterested pilots&#8221;.<br \/>At last count, there were at least 200 applications still pending for &#8220;premature release&#8221;at IAF HQ, say sources.<br \/>But pilots can seek premature retirement only on three grounds now. One, if they have been superseded in their promotion boards. Two, if they are medically unfit. And three, on &#8220;extreme compassionate grounds&#8221;.<br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">11\/12\/06 Rajat Pandit\/Times of India <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The IAF policy to tighten screws on pilots scrambling to join the much-greener pastures in civilian airlines has<\/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-42","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\/42","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=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}