Nepal achieved an air safety compliance rate of 70.01

 

KATHMANDU, Oct 20: Nepal has achieved an air safety compliance rate of 70.01 from the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) audit.

In a press conference held in Kathmandu on Wednesday, the Civil Avation Authority of Nepal (CAAN) said that from April 12 to 25, the ICAO team showed that the air safety compliance rate of aviation safety was maintained at 70.01 percent in the ground safety audit of Nepal's aviation sector.

CAAN conducted an audit conducted by a team of 10 ICAO members in eight regions of Nepal. In a press conference, Raju Shrestha, the head of the CAAN's air safety department, said that Nepal has the highest air safety compliance rate in the Asia Pacific region and the world.

He said that ICAO has shown a high improvement in Nepal's air safety compliance. He informed that CAAN has started homework to eliminate the shortcomings pointed out by the ICAO report.

Chief Shrestha said that the CAAN has also put forward additional plans for the expansion of air services in Nepal. He said ICAO's team covered 790 questions for the larger audit. Shrestha said that with the help of ICAO, he is working with the aim of maintaining the country's air safety compliance rate at 80 percent.

He said that after ICAO's audit, the authority decided not to transfer the staff. He said that the CAAN has started to arrange a separate budget for the agency that looks after safety. He said that no weakness was found in ICAO's audit, so Nepalese skies are safe for air flights.

Similarly, Director General of CAAN Pradeep Adhikari said that the safety measurement rate shown by ICAO's audit is the highest in Nepal in the Asia Pacific region. He claimed that the aviation safety rate in the Asia Pacific region is 64 percent. The official said that Nepal is doing a good job in air safety and should not be blacklisted by ICAO after showing air accidents in the mountains.

There are 100 aircraft of 9 fixed wing and 11 helicopter companies in operation in Nepal. CAAN has said that the use of Safety Performance Indicator has been started to measure flight safety.CAAN has said that the authority is deploying representatives and experts of the related ship manufacturing companies for the flight safety inspection of fixed wing and rotor wing planes.