Punjab to get world-class pilot training centers

Chandigarh: Member of Parliament and the Working President of Shiromani Akali Dal Sukhbir Singh Badal said here Thursday that the Punjabi youth would be imparted training in flying so that they could take up commercial flying as their profession.
It may be recalled that the state government had already proposed to set up of 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.
The State Government has already cleared the proposal to set up three flying training schools at Amritsar, Ludhiana and Bathinda in public private partnership ( PPP) mode besides upgrading the infrastructure at Patiala Flying training academy. Efforts were afoot to tie up with the leading players in the field of civil aviation for setting up of world-class pilot training centers in the state. Badal said that the Punjabi youth would be imparted training in flying so that they could take up commercial flying as their profession.
06/07/09 PunjabNewsline.com