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3-day workshop on restructuring of CAA begins

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KARACHI, Nov 17 (APP) A 3-day workshop regarding restructuring of Civil Aviation Authority began here Friday.

The workshop is being conducted by a 2-member team of Lahore Univesity of Management Sciences (LUMS) to give an outline of strategic plan for transformation of CAA.

A CAA team comprising six officers, headed by Brig (Rtd) Pervez Bashir Nawaz Khan, Regional Director North, has already been formed to interact with the facilitators.

The workshop's inaugural session was addressed by Director General CAA, Farooq Rahmatullah who said that CAA is to be steered towards a new direction so that it could function in harmony with the modern day aviation sector and, therefore, had a working setup accordingly.

He said CAA is a regulatory body having foremost concern about safety aspect for which an Advisor for Health, Safety, Security and Environment (HSSE) guides the authority for safe aviation operations and at the airports.

The change in the CAA is part of a constant process to meet the requirements of modern aviation era so as to get better results, he pointed out.

" We want that every one in the organization should have owning feeling about CAA and perform his responsibilities as such", Farooq said adding that our objective is that these people in the organization should progress and march forward to bring it at par with similar other world aviation bodies.

He pointed out that present is an era of Information Technology which warrants us to work in the most modern way.

The DG CAA said success is awaiting us but for this every one will have to work hard to switch over to meet modern day requirements and which is the cardinal objective of this workshop.

The team conducting the workshop includes Dr Anwar Khursheed and Dr Jamshed H. Khan.

The workshop is being attended by CAA Directors, General Managers and Corporate Managers who have been selected from the talent pool established in the CAA. They will be trained to act as master trainers for other officials to achieve the goal of making CAA a viable and profitable organization.

Source: Associated Press of Pakistan

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Airport privatisation ‘not happening soon’

Workshop costs raise eyebrows

By Saad Hasan

KARACHI:
The Director General of the Civil Aviation Authority, Pakistan’s aviation sector regulator as well as operator of the country’s airports, has clarified that while airports will be handed over to private sector, “this does not seem to be happening any time soon.”

Speaking to The News, Farooq Rehmatullah, who has been brought in from the private sector to improve the functioning of the CAA, said that the ultimate goal may be privatisation in one form or another, this is something that has to be planned and thought through.

The interesting development this week has been that after hiring a foreign firm to develop a plan forward for the CAA, its management has now acquired services of a private university to train employees who see these steps leading to privatisation.

As part of Rs3.5 million consultancy agreement with Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), a three-day training workshop for CAA officers started on Friday in Karachi, a little over three months after government contended reports of CAA’s bifurcation in a Senate session.

Documents available with this scribe suggest that Dubai-based McKinsey and Company was hired for $0.5 million to prepare a business plan, which suggested certain initiatives for ‘reorientation of the organisation’.

Soon after his appointment, Farooq Rehmatullah, the former head of Shell Pakistan, set up a CAA Restructuring Team to assist the agenda of introducing drastic changes within the regulator, a CAA official, who wished not be named, said.

“Although these initiatives are aimed at improving the working of the organisation, the officers feel lost and confused, not sure of where they are headed,” he explained.

He confided that excessive amount of money is being spent to accommodate the participants of the workshop. DG CAA Farooq Rehmatullah told the inaugural session of the workshop that the changes in CAA were part of a constant process to meet the requirements of modern day aviation industry, which would help achieve better results.

The three-day workshop on the restructuring of CAA was being conducted by a two-member LUMS team to give an outline of a strategic plan for the transformation of the regulator. “CAA is to be steered towards a new direction so that it can function in harmony with modern day aviation sector and therefore had a working set-up accordingly,” DG CAA said in his address.

He said the present era of information technology warranted adoption of modern way of conducting CAA operations. “Success is awaiting us but for this every one will have to work hard to switch over to meet modern day requirements, which is the objective of this workshop.”

Source: The News
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