VISION “Enable the people to have access to safe, secure, sustainable and affordable air connectivity services with World-Class Civil Aviation Infrastructure.” MISSION To create World-Class Civil Aviation Infrastructure for better facilities of global sandards. To establish effective regulatory framework, including for safety, in harmony with international standards. To connect presently unserved and underserved areas of the country. To develop skilled human resource according to the needs of the sector. To deploy advanced technologies for the optimal growth of the sector. To ensure maximum satisfaction of users / optimize consumer satisfaction. CONTENTS 1. Highlights 4 2. Ministry of Civil Aviation 10 3. Directorate General of Civil Aviation 15 4. Bureau of Civil Aviation Security 36 5. Commission of Railway Safety 43 6. Airports Authority of India 47 7. Air India Limited 82 8. Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Uran Akademi 94 9. Pawan Hans Limited 99 10. Airports Economic Regulatory Authority 105 11. Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau 112 12. Rajiv Gandhi National Aviation University 113 13. Accounting System in the Ministry 119 14. Welfare of Women 125 15. Facilities to Persons with Disabilities 128 16. Representative of India (ROI) on the Council of ICAO 130 1. HIGHLIGHTS 1.1 Progress of UDAN-1.0 and UDAN-3.0: also integrating a number of iconic tourism sites in coordination with the Ministry of Tourism. Key Features 1.1.1 The success of UDAN-3.0 Scheme has come of UDAN 3 included: on the back of strong performance of UDAN-1.0 and UDAN-2.0. The connectivity Inclusion of Tourism Routes under proposed under UDAN-1 has commenced UDAN 3 in coordination with the and is stable. Ministry of Tourism. Inclusion of Seaplanes for connecting 1.1.2 The focus of Ministry of Civil Aviation and Water Aerodromes, and, Airports Authority of India is on expediting Bringing in a number of routes in the connectivity under UDAN-2. Out of 21 North-East Region under the ambit of proposals remaining valid under UDAN- UDAN. 1, operations have commenced on 20 proposals. Airlines are currently in the process 1.3 Enthusiastic response from the industry: of commencing operations on proposals Airports Authority of India (AAI), the implementing awarded in UDAN-2 and a number of agency of UDAN, received 111 Initial Proposals and 17 airports development and licensing activities Counter Proposals from 15 bidders covering more than have been completed. Similarly, out of 46 240 UDAN Routes. Proposals connecting 13 Water Unserved Airports and 16 Underserved Aerodromes and more than 80 Tourism Routes were Airports awarded in UDAN-1 and UDAN-2, also received as part of the bidding process. operations have commenced on 21 Unserved Airports and 10 Underserved Airports, 73 proposals to be awarded: After detailed validation, respectively. Also, a number of destinations 73 proposals have now been identified for award: (such as Hubli, Gwalior, Allahabad etc.) which were only connected to 1 city through Airports to be connected: air connectivity earlier, are now connected to 50 currently served airports, more than 1 destination. 17 currently underserved airports, 16 currently unserved airports and, Scheme RCS Number RCS Routes Route of RCS operationalized 6 Water Aerodromes (for a total of 89 awarded Airports + as on airports) are expected be connected Heliports 02.01.2019 based on the proposals identified for award. UDAN-1 128 43 72 Geographical spread: There is a good UDAN-2 312 30+31 50 geographical spread in the proposals: Total 440 73 + 31 122 UDAN-1 (Airports+ 235 routes comprising 189 RCS Routes & 2 Heliports) and, 46 Tourism Routes are expected to 1.2 Progress of UDAN-3.0: be connected across 29 states in the country. Following two successful rounds of bidding, the Ministry of Civil Aviation launched the largest bidding Enhanced Connectivity: The proposals round under the highly successful UDAN Scheme, identified to be awarded are expected to add: 4 About 70 lakh seats annually across directly to and from 6 Indian metro airports. The open the RCS Routes. sky offer was made to 59 countries and so far the More than 1 lakh annual seats through open sky has been formalized with 18 countries. This Seaplanes and, year Open sky was formalized with Australia and Serbia. More than 15 lakh annual seats to be 1.5.1 Benefits of Open Skies Liberalization :- provided on tourism routes. The complete open sky agreement with USA Smooth implementation: To ensure smooth has yielded good results in as much as our implementation of the Scheme and quick designated airline, Air India, has been able to commencement of operations: expand its operations into USA progressively MoCA and AAI, in parallel, are over last few years at its own pace. As also coordinating with the Ministry against its limited operations to New York of Tourism and various regulatory and Newark airports in USA until few years agencies like Directorate General of back, it now has flights to six airports in USA, Civil Aviation (DGCA), Bureau of Civil namely, New York, Newark, Washington, Aviation Security (BCAS) and the State Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Governments for various facilitation. Under the Agreement with UK also, Air India 1.4 Bilateral Air Services Consultations has extended its operations to Birmingham in addition to London Heathrow. The open sky During the year, bilateral civil aviation consultations adopted by India post NCAP may also be were held to improve the civil aviation sector. Air helpful to control the ticket pricing that will Services Agreements were signed with Serbia, Morocco, be helpful for travelling public. Nigeria, & Lao PDR. The MoUs/Agreed minutes/RoD on bilateral issues were signed with China, Phillipines, The regime of bilateral rights has been Afghanistan, Indonesia, France and Russia. Informal liberalized by incorporating the partial open meetings were also held with Bhutan, China, Ethiopia sky under National Civil Aviation Policy will EU Commission, Georgia, Japan, Kuwait, Myanmar, lead to greater ease of doing business and Nepal, Oman, Poland, Qatar, Nigeria, Russia, Saudi wider choice to passengers. Arabia, Taipei Economic and Cultural Centre in India, As per NCAP, 2016 on the sectors less UAE , and Vietnam. than 5000 km, the traffic rights can only 1.5 Open Skies Liberalization be increased once Indian carriers utilizes 80% or above of the traffic rights and Before June, 2016, India entered into a complete open seek additional entitlements. This policy has sky agreement with USA. A nearly open sky agreement been helpful for Indian carriers to utilize has also been signed with UK. A partial open sky was the existing capacity rights almost fully and adopted for SAARC and ASEAN countries under which reach at Par with foreign designated carriers the designated airlines of these countries have been on important sectors viz. Dubai, Qatar, permitted to operate unlimited number of services with Sharjah, Thailand, Singapore, Kuwait where third/fourth freedom traffic rights to 18 destinations Indian carriers are utilizing more than 80% in India. According to the National Civil Aviation Policy, of capacity entitlements. 2016 (NCAP) Ministry of Civil Aviation entered into an ‘Open sky’ ASA on a reciprocal basis with SAARC Further Indian side has also decided not to countries and countries with territory located entirely increase the capacity entitlement on hub beyond a 5000 km radius from New Delhi. Unlimited countries viz. Qatar, Singapore, UAE etc. flights above the existing bilateral rights will be allowed resulting which Indian carriers be able to 5 open new routes viz. Malaysia, Turkey, Russia of the Community law, the EC had proposed signing (likely to be started shortly), Ajerbaijan of a Horizontal Agreement between India and the EU. (likely to be started shortly), Kazakhstan The implementation of EU India Horizontal Agreement (likely to be started shortly)etc. was pending since long the process of amending the existing bilateral provision with 26 EU nations 1.6 Liberalization of Code Share operations had to be completed. Now, India has been able to As per National Civil Aviation Policy, the Code share negotiate with the 26 EU nations so that the clauses has been liberalized. It leads to following benefits :- on Cooperative Marketing Arrangement, Routing flexibility, Cargo Open Sky and Inter Modal Services Domestic Code-share Points in India has have been incorporated effectively. The EU – India been liberalised within the framework Horizontal Agreement has been implemented w.e.f. 21st of the ASA. February, 2018. Now Indian carriers can feed traffic Indian carriers will be free to enter into from EU nations through code share services. Further domestic code-share agreements with by implementing the EU-India Horizontal Agreement, foreign carriers to any point in India the cross EU ownership issue has also been resolved available under the respective ASA. like Austrian Airlines and Brussels Airlines. Domestic code share has also been liberalized with many of the countries 1.9 Global Aviation Summit and additional point of calls for The Global Aviation Summit was held on 15-16th domestic code share has been agreed. January, 2019. The Summit was attended by 15 Civil This has resulted the presence of Aviation Ministers, 37 DGs/Civil Aviation Authorities, Indian carriers in the domestic sector of Representatives from 85 countries and the total foreign countries as well as contributed registered delegates crossed the figure of 1300. to develop metro airports as hub in The theme of the Summit was ‘Flying for All’ and India. The code share flights coupled the Ministers presented their expressed civil aviation with domestic code share will provide story in the Ministerial Plenary. Panel discussions to passengers seamless international were held on Drone Eco System, Aviation Financing, travel to interior destinations in India local manufacturing, flying in the future, cargo and and foreign countries.