Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia held discussions with American aerospace giants on additional strengthening collaboration with the business in India. Scindia arrived right here on Thursday for the primary leg of his go to to North America and started his engagements with discussions with New York-based technology-powered, world air mobility platform Blade.
On Thursday, he additionally interacted with members of the Indian diaspora throughout a session and reception hosted by Consul General of New York Randhir Jaiswal.
Scindia’s engagements on Friday started with a spherical desk hosted by the US-India Business Council. The roundtable, attended by senior business leaders, focussed on “ways to strengthen” collaboration between India and the US throughout the aviation sector.
“Had a productive interaction with members of @USIBC from the aviation community. Spoke about the growing focus & opportunities in regional connectivity & urban air mobility in India,” Scindia tweeted.
Later, he met vp at aerospace and protection large Raytheon Technologies Ambassador Paul Jones and Senior Vice President at American aerospace producer Pratt & Whitney Rick Duerloo.
“Discussed potential collaboration for enhancing the civil aviation infrastructure ecosystem in India, including setting up MROs and furthering our GAGAN project,” Scindia tweeted, making a reference to the GPS Aided GEO Augmented Navigation, a Space Based Augmentation System (SBAS) collectively developed by Indian Space Research Organisation and Airports Authority of India to supply navigational providers over Indian FIR (Flight Information Region).
Scindia additionally had an in depth dialogue with vp at Sikorsky Hamid Salim on deepening Lockheed Martin’s engagement with India, “including developments in the helicopter sector and setting up offset and MRO (maintenance, repair and overhaul) facilities in India.” Scindia will journey to Canada on Monday the place he’ll go to the Bombardier and Airbus amenities, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) headquarters in addition to the Air India Memorial.
Source: www.financialexpress.com”