News: India was re-elected to Part II of the ICAO Council on 27 September 2025 during the 42nd Assembly in Montreal.
About International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)
- It is an inter-governmental specialized agency associated with United Nation .
- Established: It was established in 1947 by the Convention on International Civil Aviation (1944) known as Chicago Convention.
- Headquarters: It is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.
- Members: It has 193 members.
- Function: It provides expert technical and diplomatic guidance to build safe, secure, sustainable, harmonized, and gender-inclusive international civil aviation, and supports standards, policies, and regulation.
- Working mechanism
- ICAO Assembly:
- It is a sovereign body of all 193 member States.
- It meets every three years,
- It reviews the work of ICAO, sets policy for the coming years, and votes a triennial budget.
- ICAO Council: ICAO Assembly elects a 36-member Council for a three-year term.
- It gives continuing direction to ICAO’s work and adopts Standards and Recommended Practices (SARPs) as Annexes to the Chicago Convention.
- Secretariat: It is headed by a Secretary General.
- Standards: ICAO Standards do not prevent States from adopting more stringent national standards than those in an Annex.
- ICAO Assembly:
ICAO and India
- India is a founding member of ICAO since 1944.
- It has been re-elected to Part II of the ICAO Council (States contributing most to international air navigation facilities) for the 2025–2028 term.
