Aviation India: Careers

Chandigarh: Punjab would soon have a Civil Aviation University to cater the need to equip and train the personnel in this field as the civil aviation was aheading towards a boom and had tremendous employment potential to offer to the unemployed youth in the state.
An announcement to this effect was made by the Punjab Chief Minister .Parkash Singh Badal in his inaugural address on the day long workshop on Punjab Strategy of Human Resource Development - Employment Generation & Training organized here at Hotel Mountview by the Department of Employment Generation & Training, Punjab.
With this Punjab would become the first state in the country to have a University in the field of civil aviation. Badal solicited the services of V.Mulekar, Advisor, Aviation Services, Maharastra Airport Development Co. Ltd. who had already played an instrumental role in the up-gradation of the Amritsar International Airport in 1999 and increasing the number of international flights from merely one in a week to phenomenal 59.
Badal said that services of an eminent consultants and key players in the field of civil aviation would be engaged for the preparation of the blue print of the proposed university. He also pointed out that the detailed modalities would be worked out with the Ministries of Civil Aviation and Human Resource Development for the setting up of the university.
24/08/07 PunjabNewsline.com