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The Minister of Civil Aviation has launched National Air Sport Policy 2022 (NASP 2022).
Note: Air sports encompasses various sports activities involving the medium of air. These include sports like air-racing, aerobatics, aero modeling, hang gliding, paragliding, paramotoring and skydiving etc.
What is National Air Sport Policy 2022(NASP 2022)?
Aim: To lay out the vision of making India as one of the top sports nations by 2030 by providing a safe, affordable, accessible, enjoyable and sustainable air sports ecosystem in India.
Objectives:
– Promote an air sports culture in the country.
– Enable adoption of international good practices in safety including but not limited to, air sports infrastructure, equipment, operations, maintenance and training.
– Develop a simple, stakeholder-friendly and effective governance structure.
– Enhance participation and success of Indian sportspersons in global air sports events; and
– Promote design, development and manufacturing of air sports equipment in India in line with the Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan.
Sports Covered: The policy will cover air sports such as aerobatics, aeromodelling, model rocketry, amateur-built and experimental aircraft, ballooning, drones, gliding and powered gliding. It also covers hang-gliding and powered hang-gliding, parachuting (including skydiving, BASE jumping and wingsuit flying), paragliding and paramotoring (including powered parachute trikes), powered aircraft and rotorcraft.
Four Tier Governance Structure: Under the policy, there will be a four-tier governance structure for air sports in India namely:
– Air Sports Federation of India(ASFI) is the apex governing body
– National associations for individual air sports or a set of air sports, as appropriate
– Regional (e.g. West/ South/ North East etc.) or State and Union Territory level units of the national air sports associations, as appropriate and
– District-level air sports associations as appropriate.
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Source: The post is based on the article “Minister of Civil Aviation launches National Air Sports Policy” published in PIB on 7th June 2022.
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