Research Centre of civil aviation at Begumpet Hyderabad airport will be operational by the end of 2023, announces Jyotiraditya Scindia.
The Civil Aviation Research Centre (CARO), India’s first research center in the aviation sector which is coming up at Hyderabad’s Begumpet airport, will be up and running by the end of 2023.
Stating this in the Lok Sabha on August 5, Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia also disclosed that the Airports Authority of India was executing the project at a cost of Rs.402 .13 crore.
Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia
Aviation Minister’s announcement was in response to a query from Dr. G. Ranjith Reddy, Member of Parliament representing the Chevella constituency in Telangana.
Elaborating on the role CARO will play, Scindia informed the House that the center will have research and development facilities, airports and air navigation services (ANS), air traffic management communications domain simulators, network emulators, visualization and analysis labs, surveillance labs navigation systems emulation and simulation labs.
- CARO, which is being established on a 20-acre plot of land within Begumpet airport, will offer solutions in key areas in the civilian aviation sector in India. Among its charter of duties, CARO is mandated to research and ingeniously find solutions to the ever-increasing volume of air traffic in the country, work on improving the safety of passengers, churn up new ideas for the smooth flow of air traffic movement, and study and identify, by other Central agencies, the viability of new air traffic routes.
The delayed CARO—its foundation stone was laid by Suresh Prabhu, the then Civil Aviation Minister in July 2018, and it was originally scheduled to be operational by May 2022—will also house centers that deal with data control, project help, network infrastructure, and software solutions and tools. CARO will also house cybersecurity and threat analysis laboratories.
Ranjith Reddy also sought to know if the government proposed to set up an aviation university at Begumpet airport for imparting education relating to the aviation sector in view of the huge space available at the airport, which is located in the center of the city.
Scindia said in the statement that no such proposal was currently under consideration of the Ministry of Civil Aviation. Once CARO is operational, India will join an elite band of a dozen or so countries worldwide that have established such a research facility.
Ever since the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport at Shamshabad became operational in March 2008, Begumpet airport has been utilized by the Indian Air Force for training its pilot cadets.
The airport is also the landing ground for rotary-wing aircraft used for government purposes and the chartered flights of VIPs and politicians.
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