DGCA, air traffic control staff crunch a threat: Lawmakers

A parliamentary committee on aviation has warned that staffing shortages at the country's air safety regulator and lack of air traffic controllers pose a threat to safety in one of the world's fastest growing aviation markets.

- Reuters

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) is grappling "with a profound and persistent shortage of technical and regulatory personnel," with almost half of its posts unfilled, the committee said in a report on Wednesday.

Lawmakers were reviewing aviation safety in India in the aftermath of the deadly Air India Boeing Dreamliner crash that killed 260 people in June, the world's worst aviation disaster in a decade.