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Human
Resource Development
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Airport
management, air safety, airport security, navigation & communication
and fire prevention are critical areas of human resource development,
especially in the context of privatization of these functions.
Stress needs to be laid on developing an overall environment
of courteous behavior by all associated with airport operations
besides inculcating safety and security as a habit. It is thus
of utmost importance that private institutions are set up for
training of airport managers, air traffic controllers, navigation
and communication engineers, airport security and fire-fighting
personnel and they are licensed by the Government. Appropriate
syllabi and course contents should be laid down and there should
be legal provision for licensing of these personnel.
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Simultaneously,
the training facilities in the public sector have to be upgraded
and refurbished so as to cater to the growing demands for trained
personnel as also to counter the phenomenon of technological
obsolescence.
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The
National Institute of Aviation Management and Research should
be strengthened so as to act as the lead institution for human
resource development. It should develop academic linkages with
ICAO, IIT, IIMs and Universities. Chairs on Civil Aviation research
will be created in the institutions of learning.
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In
certain areas of human resources, there may be need for introduction
of innovative systems of deployment like the flexible complementing
scheme prevalent in the scientific community, so that the benefits
of specialization are not frittered away at the time of promotion.
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Contingency
and back-up plans will be drawn up to meet emergencies arising
out of industrial unrest among airport staff.
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Airport
management needs expertise in diverse fields and cannot survive
except by sub-contracting of specialized activities to a host
of private organizations. Legal hurdles to engagement of contract
labor or contractual agencies will have to be dismantled through
legislative intervention.
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