Govt plans to make Aadhaar or passport must for domestic flight

The government is in the process of making Aadhaar number or passport mandatory for booking domestic flight tickets amid its plans to create a no-fly list to deal with unruly passengers.

“Aviation regulator DGCA will start working on a civil aviation requirement (CAR) this week,” said RN Choubey, secretary in the ministry of civil aviation. The ministry has asked the DGCA to draft the CAR by next week for consultation with stakeholders in this matter.

Aadhaar number or passport will be useful in identifying an “unruly passenger” who has been barred from flying.

Minister of state for civil aviation, Jayant Sinha, in a series of tweets on Saturday, had warned that unruly behaviour by passengers will result in “severe consequences” which would include police action as well as being placed on the no-fly list.

The no-fly list was mooted by Air India on the day Shiv Sena MP Ravindra Gaikwad hit the national carrier’s staff R Sukumar with his slipper. Air India had said that they were “examining” to create such a list.

The following day, the Federation of Indian Airlines, which has Jet Airways, SpiceJet, IndiGo and GoAir as its members, while announcing a ban on Gaikwad, also proposed the promulgation of a “no-fly list which shall include the names of all unruly passengers.”

On Friday, TMC’s Rajya Sabha MP Dola Sen had allegedly fought with the crew over not getting seats of her choice. Raipur Over 200 two-wheelers were gutted after a fire broke out at an authorised parking area of Raipur Railway Station in Chhattisgarh’s capital here on Sunday, police said.

No one was injured in the incident, police said.

The fire was noticed in the vehicles stationed in a corner of the parking lot in the railway station premises at around 12 noon, SHO Government Railway Police (GRP) Raipur Rajkumar Borjha said. It took about two hours to douse the flames and bring the situation under control, he added. PTI