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This book explains all relevant provisions of the policy for development & setting up Greenfield airports. The basic guidelines like “who are permitted to develop the airport, regulatory authorities involved in the process, incentives to be offered by State Government, details of clearances required & role of MoCA Steering Committee to expedite the process”, are elaborated to provide easy understanding of the subject.
The first step for development is the Site selection & evaluation with techno-commercial studies. This part has been covered in depth from management level perspective. The language and flow of process as described in the book is such that even the professionals who are not much aware about the Airport infrastructure development can also easily grasp the subject.
The step by step process for setting up the Greenfield airport listing the regulatory clearances required at various stages are covered with detailed guidelines for obtaining Site-clearance & In-principle approval from MoCA. The requirement to obtain Aerodrome License for operations of the Scheduled Passenger flights has been elaborated. The detailed guidelines & requirements regarding application to obtain Aerodrome License has been discussed thoroughly.
This book is aimed to provide all such tools & broad framework for setting up & development of the Greenfield Airports in the country complying to the regulatory framework.
Rajesh Jethwani
Rajesh Jethwani is a Civil Engineering graduate from MNIT Bhopal, with MBA in Project Management. He is the elected Fellow & Chartered Engineer affiliated with “The Institution of Engineers (India)”. He is an enthusiastic veteran in the field of Airport Process Management with more than 31 years of experience in the Civil Aviation Industry. He has a vast working experience in all the disciplines of airport development including planning, design, regulations, construction, operations & management.
He is well versed with ICAO SARP’s, Civil Aviation Requirements promulgated by DGCA regarding aerodrome standards & licensing coupled with airport security requirement specified by BCAS. He has thorough command & understanding of Airport operational & passenger facilitation requirements, including land-acquisition, apart from Airport operational techniques & ORAT management. He has wide exposure to evaluate technical feasibility of the airport projects with analysis of financial-viability. He has also been associated with many other major prestigious International airport projects including Bangalore & Navi Mumbai.
He is a passionate writer and always desires to share his experience and knowledge with the young generation to guide them to success. However, being in an active professional life, his dream of converting his thoughts into words, got prolonged, though the manuscripts on various topics were getting developed.
Finally, his cherished dream comes true, as he harnessed his wide knowledge & skills acquired during his vivid experience of more than 31years in the Civil Aviation Industry to complete his first book titled – “Aerodrome Master Planning & Design Principles”, in June’20. Following the intense demand of peers to release part version of this Main book, another book titled “Journey of Civil Aviation in India”, was also published. The kindle version of these books are available on www.amazon.com & the Paperback version is available on www.notionpress.com .
He aspires to continue sharing knowledge to develop awareness amongst the young generation. His aim is to impart comprehensive knowledge to the interested fraternity on the subject of Aerodrome standards & regulations and get skilled in Airport Master planning, Design, Management & Operations. The subject of Airport planning & design
