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08/06/22 07:43 AM IST

National Air Sports Policy

In News 
  • The Minister of Civil Aviation Shri Jyotiraditya M. Scindia  launched National Air Sport Policy 2022 (NASP 2022).
NASP 2022
  • NASP 2022 lays out the vision of making India as one of the top sports nations by 2030, by providing a safe, affordable, accessible, enjoyable and sustainable air sports ecosystem in India.
  • The policy will cover the following air sports in India: -
    • Aerobatics 
    • Aero modeling and model rocketry
    • Amateur-built and experimental aircraft
    • Ballooning
    • Drones
    • Gliding and powered gliding
    • Hang gliding and powered hang gliding
    • Parachuting (including skydiving, BASE  jumping and wing suits etc.)
    • Paragliding and para motoring (including powered parachute trikes etc.)
    • Powered aircraft (including ultra light, micro light and light sports aircraft etc.)
    • Rotorcraft (including autogyro)
Objectives
  • Promote an air sports culture in the country
  • Enable adoption of international good practices in safety including but not limited to, air sports infrastructure, equipment, operations, maintenance and training
  • Develop a simple, stakeholder-friendly and effective governance structure
  • Enhance participation and success of Indian sportspersons in global air sports events; and
  • Promote design, development and manufacturing of air sports equipment in India in line with the Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan.

Under the new policy, there will be four-tier governance structure for air sports in India namely

  • Air Sports Federation of India (ASFI) as the apex governing body
  • National associations for individual air sports or a set of air sports, as appropriate
  • Regional (e.g. West/ South/ North East etc.) or State and Union Territory level units of the national air sports associations, as appropriate; and
  • District-level air sports associations, as appropriate.
 Indian Air Sports Players
  • Ms. Shital Mahajan is known as the first woman to perform an accelerated free fall jump over the Antarctica from 10,000 feet, the youngest woman to jump over both the North and South Poles and the first woman jumper to perform it without trials 
  • Ms. Rachel Thomas was the first Indian woman to skydive from 7,000 feet over the North Pole.
Source- PIB

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