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winter setting in and fog a normal feature during the season, air
travellers flying Jet Airways and three other private airlines may
face delays as these carriers do not have even one pilot trained to
fly aircraft when runway visual range is less than 200 meters. Jet Airways, the country's biggest private carrier, as well as Jetlite, SpiceJet and Air Deccan do not have a single pilot trained on CAT-III (Category-III) instrument landing system, according to the Directorate-General of Civil Aviation. "Next year, fog slots assigned to different airlines stand cancelled if they do not improve on their pilots' flying capacity to CAT-III status," DGCA director-general K. Gohain said in New Delhi recently. National carrier Indian leads the tally with 265 CAT-III pilots, followed by Air India at 192, DGCA figures show. The other three airlines that have CAT-III trained pilots are Kingfisher (44), Indigo (16) and Go Air (13). These are foreign skilled pilots and DGCA has allowed them to fly after checking their credentials. Jet Airways tops the list of Category-II pilots with a strength of 300, followed by Air India and Indian with 280 and 268 CAT-II pilots, respectively. As part of DGCA guidelines, airlines have been asked to ensure that only those pilots who are adequately trained for landing and taking off during low-visibility conditions should be rostered to operate flights to and from Delhi airport. The CAT-III landing system is being installed at the secondary runway being constructed at the Delhi Airport. Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel sought to downplay the issue of delays due to fog, saying this was a worldwide phenomenon. "Airports in Chicago and other western countries are closed for nearly four days due to fog," he said.
— PTI Wipro, MIT ink pact for courses IT service and solutions provider Wipro has signed an agreement with the Maharashtra Institute of Technology, Pune to provide faculty development programmes, technical sponsorships and student workshops. The memorandum of understanding envisages a set of planned activities and interactions addressing various stakeholders namely students, faculty and the management. These activities and interactions include faculty development programmes, technical sponsorships and student workshops, Wipro said in a statement in New Delhi recently. "This blending of academic curriculum with the practical industrial exposure extended by the Industry in general and Wipro Technologies in particular, will definitely give the momentum for the technological development of our Nation," MIT (Pune) Director (Industry Academia Collaborations) P. Subhramanyam said. Sharadchandra Darade (Patil), Dean, MIT, Pune said, "In the present ever-changing and fast growing global technological era, collaborations / long term relationships with the most reputed in the Industry and Academia has paramount importance in the Academic excellence of outstanding professional Institutes". IIM-L event on contract management The IIM-Lucknow has announced a three-day Management Development Programme (MDP) on Contract Management on its campus from December 17, 2007. It will be conducted by Dr S Senegar, professor of law and chairman of legal management at IIM-L, along with experienced business professionals, lawyers and arbitrators. Effective contract management and dispute resolution business transactions are based on contracts. Managing legal issues in contracts is essential to guarantee profitability to the organisation. Contract management is the process which ensures that both parties to a contract fully meet up their respective obligations as effectively as possible, in order to achieve business objectives under the contract. The purpose of the course is to develop an understanding of legal and managerial issues in contract formulation, performance and enforcement to help avoid some of the pitfalls in contracting and providing a sort of backdrop that makes it easier to deal with lawyers and/or arbitrators, if the need occurs.
— TNS Satyam to train engineers in Japan IT major Satyam Computer Services today said it will set up a training centre in Japan in a bid to strengthen its presence in that country. The company would set up a Centre of Excellence(COE), named Kanzen, in Japan for training the country's engineering graduates, it informed the Bombay Stock Exchange. "This initiative is an innovation to traditional models of delivering offshore value to Japan from India. The process has been initiated to build bilingual talent pool in India, China and Japan," Satyam North Asia Head Harsh Vardhan said in Mumbai recently. While some of the Indian companies focussed on Japan have been working towards higher investments in the country that alone might not be the solution to the problem, as India has an acute shortage of bilingual engineers, he added. The company has over 100 engineers operating in the country over the last three months. The team would work in programme managing deliveries out of China, Japan and India.
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