Bharatiya Vayuyan Vidheyak 2024
Civil Aviation Minister K. Ram Mohan Naidu introduced the Bharatiya Vayuyan Vidheyak 2024, which seeks to replace the 90-year-old Aircraft Act 1934, in Lok Sabha. The bill seeks to simplify civil aviation regulations by addressing ambiguities in the Aircraft Act, enhance ease of doing business and aid manufacturing in aviation, the minister said. The amendments, he said, were “plugged into the original Act in bits and pieces because of which there was a lot of confusion in the Act. There’s a lot of grey area. There was a lot of redundancy”. Hence, a “new principal” act has been proposed to remove the confusion and redundancies that exist, Naidu said. The proposed bill will also ensure that the civil aviation rules and guidelines are in sync with standards and practices recommended by the International Civil Aviation Organization guidelines, he added. “I would like to oppose the introduction of the bill…The name of the original bill was Aircraft Bill 1934. The title of the bill was in