While putting
the emphasis on capacity building and to elevate the standards of all Civil
Aviation Institutions, Advisor to Prime Minister on Aviation Sardar Mehtab
Ahmad Khan asserted it a call of contemporary era. He directed to focus on
designing all curriculums in the light of different international universities
and asserted to develop national and international collaboration with renowned
institutions of Civil Aviation, particularly engineering and technical adding
that it is the need of an hour.
He expressed these views during his
surprise visit to the Civil Aviation Training Institute (CATI) in Hyderabad
here on Thursday. Besides Director General CAA, Air
Marshal (R) Asim Suleiman and Additional DGCAA AVM Usaid ur Rehman, senior
officials of Aviation Division were also present on the occasion.
He visited the different sections of
the institute and instructed to upgrade all the facilities and said that it is
a call of present era to modernize all resources for getting desired output. A
detailed briefing was also given to the Adviser regarding the working and
performance of the institute.
Sardar Mehtab Ahmad Khan instructed
the concerned officials not only to upgrade the facilities of CATI with special
focus on designing latest curriculum but also the capacity building training of
faulty in order to full fill contemporary demands of the market.
He underlined the need of designing
all curriculums in the light of different International standards and asked to
develop national and international collaboration with renowned institutions. He
emphasized on the induction of capacity building and said that training
workshops and courses should be conducted in order to give exposure to the trainees,
faculty members and staff.
Advisor to PM directed that training
institute should be upgraded to world class standards in all respects adding
that not only best training faculty should be deployed here but also curriculum
of different disciplines should be according to best standards of aviation. He
said collaboration with best aviation institutes especially with best national
and international universities be enhanced and asked Civil Aviation Authority
to take assistance from Korean institutions for technical disciplines.
Mehtab asked the faculty members and
staff of the institute to realize their responsibilities and improve the
performance of institute to get the maximum. He further directed the DG CAA to
ensure the provision of best available facilities, “faculty should be top of
class and they must be given exposure of world best institutes, and then after
capacity building they should remain part of institute”, he added. He said that
exchange faculty programs should be launched and standards should be upgraded
to meet best institutes of region so that whole environment should be
attractive for international trainees.
