DGCA's new eGCA platform aims to make aviation incident reporting faster
India's Directorate General of Civil Aviation is launching a digital platform on the eGCA portal to streamline the reporting of aviation incidents. The move is intended to improve safety oversight and the efficiency of mandatory occurrence reporting.
Why it matters
Digitizing safety reporting is a key modernization effort for India's rapidly growing aviation sector to ensure better regulatory compliance and incident tracking.
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) is developing a digital platform on the eGCA portal for reporting aviation incidents, a move aimed at making the submission and processing of mandatory occurrence reports faster and more efficient.The initiative, intended to strengthen the country's aviation safety oversight, was announced by civil aviation minister K Rammohan Naidu in the Rajya Sabha on Monday."DGCA is presently in the process of introducing a digital platform for occurrence reporting on the eGCA portal to facilitate electronic submission and processing of mandatory occurrence reports, thereby improving the timeliness and efficiency of incident reporting," he said in a written reply.The minister also outlined the regulator's existing safety oversight framework, saying the DGCA monitors compliance with aviation rules and Civil Aviation Requirements (CARs) covering all aircraft and airport operators.
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