India 2018

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discharging all relevant national and international obligations in respect of
aviation security responsibilities which include, inter alia, planning and coordination
of all aviation security related activities, operational emergencies
and crisis management.
Airports Authority of India
Airports Authority of India (AAI) came into being in April 1995. AAI is a Mini
Ratna-Category-I PSE involved in building, upgrading, maintaining and
managing airports infrastructure across the country. It owns and maintains
125 airports (96-operational and 29 - non-operational) comprising 21-
International airport (3 - civil enclaves), 8 - custom airports (4 - civil enclaves),
77 - domestic airports and 19-domestic civil enclaves. AAI has completed upgradation
and modernization of 60 airports including 2 metro airports at
Kolkata and Chennai creating additional capacity of 102 million passenger
per annum (MPPA). The present capacity of Indian Air ports is 282 MPPA.
Air Navigation Services
AAI provides Air Navigation Services (ANS) at all civil airports in the country.
AAI manages the designated Indian air space measuring 2.8 million square
nautical miles which includes land area measuing 1.05 million square nautical
miles and oceanic airspace measuring 1.75 million square nautical miles Air
Navigation Services are also provided by the AAI at 11 other airports that are
not managed by AAI namely Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Cochin,
Lengpui, Diu, Latur, Mundra, Nanded and Sathya Sai Puttaparthy Airports,
which are joint venture airports, state government owned airports and private
airports.
GPS Aided Geo Augmented Navigation (GAGAN) is an augmentation system
to enhance the accuracy and integrity of GPS signals to meet precision approach
requirements in Civil Aviation and it is being implemented jointly by AAI and
ISRO. It is fully operational since May 2015 and available on 24 x 7 basis.
Presently GAGAN Signal-in-Space is available to users from two geostationary
satellites (GSAT-8 and GSAT-10) and third geo-satellite GSAT-15 is in the
process of integration with GAGAN system.
Air India
Consequent upon merger of erstwhile Air India Ltd. and Indian Airlines, a
new company viz., National Aviation Company of India Limited (NACIL)
was incorporated. Consequently post merger, the new entity is known as "Air
India" and the appointed date of the merger is 1 April 2007. The "Maharaja" is
retained as its mascot. The Registered Office of the Company is in New Delhi.
Air India Ltd. is basically a passenger orientated airlines operating to 72 on -
line domestic stations (including Alliance Air) and 42 international destinations
in 28 countries. It is in transport services sector under the administrative control
of the Ministry of Civil Aviation.