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World's
first integrated aviation university in Bangalore
Monday November 01, 2010 04:49:16 PM,
IANS
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Sydney:
The Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation (CAPA) and the
Bangalore-based Subramanya Construction and Development Company (SCDC)
Monday signed a joint venture agreement to set up the world's
first integrated aviation university and training campus in the
Karnataka capital.
The Sydney-based CAPA, a globally recognised provider of industry
research and analysis, and SCDC will invest $125 million to
develop CAPA AeroPark on a 50-acre site in Bangalore by 2012.
The fully developed campus will have state-of-the-art academic
facilities together with full flight simulators, a flying school,
engineering workshops and laboratories, research centres,
accommodation for students and faculty, recreational facilities, a
hotel and convention centre.
The university would have satellite academies in Delhi and Mumbai
for airline and airport management, pilots, engineers, air traffic
controllers, cabin crew and regulators.
"This facility is in response to a felt need for trained aviation
personnel in India given the rapid growth that is envisaged in
India's aviation industry over the next few years. It further
enhances the growing Australia-India trade and investment
relations," Consul General of India in Sydney Amit Dasgupta told
IANS.
India has been one of the fastest growing aviation markets with
demand for skilled personnel expected to triple over the next
decade. Even conservative projections estimate India will emerge
as the third largest aviation market in the world in the next
12-15 years.
"There is an emerging global shortage of skilled human resources
in the industry, which is particularly acute in rapidly emerging
markets such as India and neighbouring regions. The aviation
industries in India and the Gulf alone are expected to see
investment in excess of $200 billion over the next decade and
availability of skills is critical to support this," said CAPA
Group Executive Chairman Peter Harbison.
According to the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO),
the Asia Pacific region now has training capacity to meet only 35
percent of its annual requirement of almost 14,000 pilots- an
annual shortfall of 9,000.
The CAPA AeroPark Masterplan has been developed after
consultations with airlines, airports, governments, universities
and aviation training providers from around the world, and
on-the-ground study of currently available training infrastructure
in India.
SCDC Group Chairman K.N.Balasubramanyam said: "This facility will
be vital for developing a professional, sustainable and safe
aviation industry and will help position India as a globally
competitive aviation and aerospace hub."
This is SCDC's first foray into the education sector.
Bangalore has been chosen as the location for the campus because
it is the country's aerospace hub, home to Hindustan Aeronautics,
the nation's leading aerospace company, and the Airbus Engineering
and Design Centre, Boeing's Research and Technology Centre,
besides several national research institutes and companies
involved in aviation technology, design, maintenance and
manufacturing.
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