Context:
Bharatiya Vayuyan Vidheyak 2024 introduced in the Lok Sabha.
Bharatiya Vayuyan Vidheyak 2024:
- Aims to replace – Aircraft Act, 1934
- Objective – Provide guidelines for the control of the manufacture, possession, use, operation, sale, import and export of aircraft
- Key Highlights –
- Aims to empower the Central Government to make rules to implement the Convention relating to international civil aviation.
- Examples – Chicago Convention (1944) and the International Telecommunication Convention (1932).
- It also gives the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS), and the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) increased powers.
- It also empowers the Central Government to issue orders (like detaining aircraft) in emergency in the interest of public safety.
- Aims to empower the Central Government to make rules to implement the Convention relating to international civil aviation.
- Significance –
- In alignment with the Atmanirbhar Bharat initiative.
- Wider coverage to cover drones, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and certain electronic gliders.
Source: The Hindu
Previous Year Question
Consider the following activities:
1. Spraying pesticides on a crop field.
2. Inspecting the craters of active volcanoes.
3. Collecting breath samples from spouting whales for DNA analysis.
At the present level of technology, which of the above activities can be successfully carried out by using drones?
[UPSC Civil Services Exam – 2022 Prelims]
(a) 1 and 2 only
(b) 2 and 3 only
(c) 1 and 3 only
(d) 1, 2 and 3
Answer: (d)
