The Indian DGCA has in past been complacent with following guidelines of ICAO. Internal audits of its own system have been either complacent in itself or results of these audits warranting corrective action have been ignored. As previous audits done by regulatory authorities have marginally passed the DGCA with the understanding that improvements would be made, the FAA finally decided to draw the line in 2014 and downgraded the Indian regulators safety ranking to Category II (Live Mint, 2014).

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2. • The Indian DGCA has in past been complacent with following guidelines of ICAO. Internal audits of its own
system have been either complacent in itself or results of these audits warranting corrective action have been
ignored. As previous audits done by regulatory authorities have marginally passed the DGCA with the
understanding that improvements would be made, the FAA finally decided to draw the line in 2014 and
downgraded the Indian regulators safety ranking to Category II (Live Mint, 2014).

3. • Undocumented theories continue to circulate as to the reason for it deficiencies. As the world’s largest
democracy and the second most populous country, the regulator has struggled to recognize its flaws and
instead has known to shift to blame to the audit teams. What has not been addressed to date by any
investigator is the reason why they continue to be so complacent. And more importantly, what can be done to
bring the standards of the world’s second largest populous country’s regulatory authority to those of the
Western nations.

4. • Reference(s)
• Live Mint. (December, 2014). US aviation regulator finds some shortcomings during DGCA audit.
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