Amid unprecedented growth in India’s aviation sector, the Federation of Indian Pilots (FIP) on Saturday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to establish an autonomous, statutory Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), replacing the DGCA. In a detailed proposal addressed to PM Modi, FIP President Capt CS Randhawa stressed that India, now the third-largest domestic aviation market in the world, remains an outlier among major regional economies by continuing to rely on the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), an attached office of the Ministry of Civil Aviation.






