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Union Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia on Saturday said his ministry is looking at a template to restructure the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS)..
Besides, the minister said the workforce at BCAS, the country's aviation security body, will be increased by 400-450 people...
Passenger traffic, fleet size and number of airports are growing, but the back-end infrastructure also has to grow to support this high rate of growth in the civil aviation sector, he said.. "And therefore, all our agencies, whether it is air traffic controllers, we have in the last 15 months, increased their capacity by almost close to 33-45 per cent, from close to 2,796 to almost 3,940," he said here...
A similar situation is at BCAS, which is responsible for security, Scindia said, adding, "I am, right now, looking at a template for the restructuring of the organisation itself...in addition to increasing the capacity by almost 400-450 staff"...
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