Dedicated corridors & hubs: Scindia announces new helicopter policy

Oct 8, 2021
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Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia Friday introduced a brand new helicopter coverage underneath which devoted hubs and corridors can be established and touchdown expenses and parking deposits abolished to spice up industrial operations.

“In the present day, I wish to announce a brand new helicopter coverage for the entire nation. We have now ten steps which can be going to be a part of this coverage,” Mr. Scindia acknowledged throughout his speech on the third Helicopter Summit organised by trade physique FICCI in Dehradun.

Below the brand new coverage, the federal government goes to place collectively a devoted helicopter-acceleration cell within the Civil Aviation Ministry that can have a look at helicopter trade’s points, the minister talked about.

“It’ll be a useful resource that you need to use to facilitate your progress,” he added.

The minister acknowledged that in accordance with the brand new coverage, there will likely be no touchdown expenses or parking deposits for heliports or helicopter corporations from now onward.

Officers of Airports Authority of India (AAI) and Air Visitors Management (ATC) will have interaction with the helicopter trade stakeholders in order that satisfactory coaching is given to all people concerning helicopter points, the minister famous.

Below the brand new coverage, an advisory group has been arrange within the Civil Aviation Ministry to debate any ache factors of the trade, he talked about.

Heli-Disha, a booklet that was launched on Friday in Dehradun, can be given to each collector of each district of the nation, he stated.

The booklet contained all laws and points associated to helicopter measurement, weight, operations, and so forth, and it could be distributed in order that consciousness about them is created within the district administrations throughout the nation, he added.

As per the brand new coverage, a centralised Heli-Seva portal will likely be upgraded to a degree so that each one permissions for a helicopter flight could possibly be granted on-line, the minister talked about.

He stated the federal government goes to make 4 Heli-hubs to start out with – one at Juhu in Mumbai, second in Guwahati, third in Delhi and fourth at HAL airport in Bengaluru.

The minister stated 10 cities and 82 routes have been recognized to develop helicopter corridors.

“As a starting, we’re going to begin with three devoted corridors for helicopters – Juhu-Pune-Juhu, Mahalakshmi race course-Pune-Mahalakshmi race course and Gandhinagar-Ahmedabad-Gandhinagar,” Mr. Scindia famous.

He stated the federal government has chosen three expressways – Delhi-Bombay expressway, Ambala-Kotputli expressway and Amrisar-Bhatinda-Jamnagar expressway – the place the heliports can be arrange alongside the expressway in order that evacuation of accident victims could be performed instantly.

Within the well being sector, it’s stated that the primary seven minutes are the golden minutes when we’ve got to evacuate victims of a highway accident, he added.


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