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Wednesday, 10 February 2021

07:50

Categories of Fixed Wing Aircraft 'SeaPlanes' Based on Seatin

Categories of Fixed Wing Aircraft 'SeaPlanes' Based on Seating Capacity

Ministry of Civil Aviation

Fixed Wing Aircraft (Including Seaplanes) Classified Into four (4) Categories Based on Seating Capacity

Small Aircraft Operator under Category-1a Awarded 26 RCS Routes In UDAN 3.0 and 4.0

Posted On: 04 FEB 2021 5:54PM by PIB Delhi

Ministry of Civil Aviation has launched Regional Connectivity Scheme - UDAN (Ude Desh ka Aam Nagrik) on 21-10-2016 to stimulate regional air connectivity and making air travel affordable to the masses. Under the UDAN scheme connectivity is enhanced by reviving unserved and underserved airports and by giving financial (Viability Gap Funding or VGF) support to meet the gap, if any, between the cost of airline operations and expected revenues on such UDAN routes. In addition to VGF, concessions to the Selected Airlines Operators (SAOs) are offered by Central Government, State Government and airport operator for operation of UDAN flights. 

Different fixed wing aircraft (including seaplanes), based on their seating capacity, have been classified into the following four (4) categories for the purpose of UDAN Scheme based on seating capacity.

1. Category-1A   -  <9 passengers

2. Category-1      -   9 - 20 passengers

3. Category-2      -    21 - 80 passengers

4. Category-3      -     > 80 passengers

In UDAN 3.0 and 4.0, a small aircraft operator under Category-1A was awarded 26 RCS routes.  For Details of these 26 RCS routes, click here  

UDAN is a market driven scheme. The interested airlines based on their assessment of demand on particular routes submit their proposals at the time of bidding under UDAN from time to time. Airports Authority of India (AAI), the Implementing Agency, provides VGF to SAOs for operation of UDAN flights. The VGF for UDAN flights is generated from within the sector by imposing a levy per departure, primarily on trunk routes.  Besides the VGF and concessions, SAOs also get exclusivity right of operation of UDAN flight for a period of three years on the awarded route under UDAN scheme.

This information was given in a written reply by Shri Hardeep Singh Puri, Minister of State (I/C), Civil Aviation in Lok Sabha.

Source:PIBNEWS

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Sunday, 10 May 2015

16:24

Railway Engineering Course at Visvesvayara Technological University Next Year

Railway Engineering Course at Visvesvayara Technological University Next Year

Belagavi (BGM): Visvesvayara Technological University (VTU) Vice-Chancellor H Maheshappa announced that a new railway engineering course would be started in the university from the next academic year.

At the 14th annual convocation of VTU on Saturday, he said the university, which has 207 engineering colleges affiliated to it in the state, was the first varsity in the country to introduce the innovative digital evaluation system.

All the answer scripts written by the students are digitalised immediately after the examination and stored in a server. The teachers evaluate the answer scripts on a computer screen and enter the marks immediately. The process helps avoid tampering of answer scripts, he added.

The VTU honoured Padma Bhushan V K Aatre and Reva University Chancellor P Shyama Raju with Doctor of Science honorary degrees during the convocation.

Aatre, a scientist and former secretary of the Defence Research and Development Organisation and director general of the Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA), was also a former scientific adviser to the defence minister. He completed his BE in Electrical Engineering from the University of Mysore in 1961 and ME from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bengaluru in 1963. He completed his PhD from the University of Waterloo, Canada, in 1967.

He joined the DRDO at the Naval Physical and Oceanographic Laboratory in 1980 and became its director in 1984. He was conferred the Padma Bhushan in 2000.

Raju is the founder of Reva Group of Educational Institutions and REVA University in Bengaluru.

With his zeal, visionary outlook and philanthropic approach, coupled with four decades of long entrepreneurial leadership and decade-long experience in higher education, he is recognised as a leading contributor to the fast-growing education sector.

Governor Vajubhai Vala presented gold medals to students who excelled in various subjects and certificates to PhD degree holders during the programme. Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu was also present.
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