Who put Zaidi in Civil Aviation?
BELIEVE it or not, the private airline operators are the de facto bosses of the Ministry of Civil Aviation and the Director General of Civil Aviation. The airlines operators have evolved a formula to rule over these powerful entities – by employing the children of some of the top officials. This, we are told, is the reason nobody knows what is happening regarding the air-worthiness of aircraft and the competence of pilots.
There are no updates on both issues in the DGCA and the Ministry. As for Nasim Zaidi, the new Secretary in the Ministry, his son works for a large and influential airline. It is said that a lobby of private airline operators, with whom Minister Praful Patel has close links, put Zaidi in the post.

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