DGCA approves advanced air traffic management system for Mangalore International Airport

September 6, 2013

Mangalore, Sep 6: The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has accorded approval to Airports Authority of India (AAI) to commission the state-of-the-art technology-based automated air traffic management system Aircon 2100 at Mangalore International Airport (MIA) at Kenjar here.

Aircon 2100 installed around a year back at an estimated cost of Rs 10 crore has undergone extensive field trials before DGCA issued licence to it.

J T Radhakrishna, director, MIA said Aircon 2100 is one of the most advanced automated air traffic control system which meets International Civil Aviation Organisation's standard and recommended practices in air traffic management. Procured from Indra, Spain, the system has undergone vigorous safety assessment with field trials in shadow mode before its commissioning, he said, adding the trials were carried out for one year.

The system enhances safety of lights by providing air traffic controllerswith information of air movements from radar, flight plans, direction finders and air-ground data link messages.

It also provides high degree of automation of control tasks with flight plan management tools, automatic flight tracking system, automatic coordination between control positions and control centres, safety nets, and medium term traffic conflict prediction tools.

The system is capable of processing data from other radar feeds such as Bangalore, Chennai, Thiruvananthapuram and displayed at Mangalore to increase the area of radar coverage.

The control tool provided by the system assists controllers in decision making and judgement, for safe handling of traffic and reduces their workload. The controllers get warning whenever safety of aircraft is going to be infringed due to collision or other factors.

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BJP fields Kishore Kumar Puttur from DK-Udupi Local Authorities’ Constituency

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October 1,2024

The BJP has selected Kishore Kumar Puttur as its candidate for the bypoll to Karnataka Legislative Council from Dakshina Kannada and Udupi Local Authorities’ Constituency. The by-election will be held on October 21.

Kishore Kumar is presently serving as the General Secretary of Dakshina Kannada BJP unit. He had served as vice president of State BJP Yuva Morcha from 2014 to 2016.

The by-election will be held to the seat vacated by Kota Srinivas Poojary of the BJP who has been elected as the Lok Sabha member from Udupi-Chikmagaluru Lok Sabha constituency. The vacancy was created on June 15, 2024 following Poojary’s resignation to the Council. His term in the council was till January, 2028.

In the last Council election held for the dual member constituency in December 2021, Poojary had secured 3,672 votes while the Congress candidate Manjunath Bhandary had secured 2079 votes. Poojary and Bhandary had secured required votes from the first preferential votes and had won the election.

There were several aspirants for the BJP ticket including former MP Nalin Kumar Kateel, DK BJP president Satish Kumpala, Mangaluru divisional in-charge Uday Kumar Shetty, former minister Pramod Madhwaraj and former Udupi district BJP president Kuilady Suresh Nayak.

The Congress is yet to announce its candidate for the election. KPCC working president Manjunath Bhandary in a recent press meet in Mangaluru had said that an opportunity will be given to congress leaders from Udupi district to contest by-election.

The Dakshina Kannada and Udupi Local Authorities’ Constituency has 6037 voters including 3551 from Dakshina Kannada comprising eight MLAs, one MP. The last date for filing nomination is October 3 and the last date for withdrawal of nomination is October 7. The counting will be held on October 24.

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