Act Number: 26

Act Name: The Rajiv Gandhi National Aviation University Act, 2013

Year: 2013

Enactment Date: 2013-09-18

Long Title: An Act to establish and incorporate a national aviation University to facilitate and promote aviation studies and research to achieve excellence in areas of aviation management, policy, science and technology, aviation environment, training in governing fields of safety and security regulations on aviation and other related fields to produce quality human resources to cater to the needs of the aviation sector and to provide for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

Ministry: Ministry of Civil Aviation

Department:

Section 4: Objects of University.
    The objects of the University shall be,—
         (i) to facilitate and promote aviation studies, teaching, training, research and extension work with focus on emerging areas of studies such as aviation management, aviation regulation and policy, aviation history, aviation science and engineering, aviation law, aviation safety and security, aviation medicine, search and rescue, transportation of dangerous goods, environmental studies and other related fields, and also to achieve excellence in these and connected fields in emerging areas and such areas as may emerge in future;
         (ii) to promote advanced knowledge by providing institutional and research facilities in such branches of learning as it may deem fit and to make provisions for integrated courses in management, science and other key and frontier areas of technology and allied disciplines in the educational programmes of the University;
         (iii) to create an ambience for learning and scholarship in aviation technology;
         (iv) to take appropriate measures for ensuring and regulating the quality of aviation education programmes in India offered by recognised institutions;
         (v) to develop academic standards of an international level and undertake other measures as it may deemed fit, to facilitate the development for skilled aviation man power including the licensed category of aviation personnel;
         (vi) to develop various programmers for airlines, airport, aviation authorities and staff ranging from airline management and marketing, airport management, regulations and aviation law, aviation safety and security or any other programme and train manpower in aviation field;
         (vii) to take appropriate measures for promoting innovations in teaching-learning process, undertake inter-disciplinary studies and research.
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