Pune (Maharashtra), June 24, 2025 (ANI): Speaking on aviation security measures for the Char Dham Yatra, Union Minister of Civil Aviation, Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu said, “Security measures for Indian civil aviation have been the primary foundation. Safety is the topmost priority... Regarding the Chardham operations, we want to enhance the safety even more. We are looking into enhanced safety, surveillance and creating more systems. Because there are a lot of hilly areas, air traffic management is a bit challenging when there is no signal. We are looking at innovative solutions so that we can have more air traffic control and better processing of weather data. We have observed in some incidents that the weather changes suddenly, and it's difficult for the pilots to land or take off. For that, we are bringing better technology and air traffic control... We will use the next two to three months to enhance the safety aspect in those areas. By September, we will develop some new things so that the safety becomes much better...”
00:00For Indian civil aviation, security has been the primary foundation and whenever I have spoken or previous ministers have spoken regarding civil aviation, safety is kept as the topmost priority.
00:12There shouldn't be no compromise on safety. Safety is the foremost pillar.
00:16So regarding that the Chardam operations also, we want to enhance the safety even more.
00:21We are looking into enhanced surveillance and creating more systems.
00:25We have seen that because there is a lot of hilly area there also, the air traffic management is a little bit challenging where there is no signal there.
00:34So we are looking at innovative solutions so that we can have more air traffic control and we can have more better processing of weather data also.
00:42We have seen observed in some incidents that suddenly the weather is changing and it's difficult for the pilots to land or take off in those times.
00:49So for that, use technology, bring in better technology, bring in better air traffic control and see how you can better the systems.
00:58So we are going to use the next two to three months specifically to enhance the safety aspect in those areas.
01:05And by September season, we are going to come up with some new things so that the safety becomes much better.
