The International Civil Aviation Organization (Icao) has given Nepal’s non-compliance with Icao standards a rating of 45 percent. The global average for non-compliance is 38 percent. The failure of the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (Caan) to strengthen aviation safety oversight mechanism has been blamed for Nepal’s being put in the bad books of the United Nations aviation watchdog.
The score is based on the audit results of the Universal Safety Oversight Audit Programme (USOAP) as of February. Caan plans to invite a re-validation mission in February 2015 to review the corrective action plan enforced to address safety deficiency.
Icao monitors Nepal’s aviation safety oversight capabilities through the ICAO Coordinated Validation Missions (ICVM). A mission had arrived in Nepal in July last year to validate the corrective measures taken by Nepal to address and resolve the deficiencies pointed out by the global aviation watchdog in 2009. The mission carried out an on-site audit from July 10-16, 2013.
Although Caan had expected the non-compliance rate to come down to the global average when it was asked for comments by Icao in December last year on the improvements it had made immediately after the on-site audit, the global aviation regulator did not consider modifying the preliminary audit records.
Ratish Chandra Lal Suman, director general of Caan, said that Nepal’s score on the audit report was not revised as Caan was not able to send the progress report after July.
“There has been significant progress particularly in the primary legislation part since then.” He added that Caan
had been working on a number of “off-site” validation and sending the progress report through an online framework to Icao.
“The corrective action plan on the primary legislation has almost been completed while there has been improvements in other indicators too,” said Suman, adding that the current improvement would help to bring down the non-compliance rate to 30 percent.
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The score is based on the audit results of the Universal Safety Oversight Audit Programme (USOAP) as of February. Caan plans to invite a re-validation mission in February 2015 to review the corrective action plan enforced to address safety deficiency.
Icao monitors Nepal’s aviation safety oversight capabilities through the ICAO Coordinated Validation Missions (ICVM). A mission had arrived in Nepal in July last year to validate the corrective measures taken by Nepal to address and resolve the deficiencies pointed out by the global aviation watchdog in 2009. The mission carried out an on-site audit from July 10-16, 2013.
Although Caan had expected the non-compliance rate to come down to the global average when it was asked for comments by Icao in December last year on the improvements it had made immediately after the on-site audit, the global aviation regulator did not consider modifying the preliminary audit records.
Ratish Chandra Lal Suman, director general of Caan, said that Nepal’s score on the audit report was not revised as Caan was not able to send the progress report after July.
“There has been significant progress particularly in the primary legislation part since then.” He added that Caan
had been working on a number of “off-site” validation and sending the progress report through an online framework to Icao.
“The corrective action plan on the primary legislation has almost been completed while there has been improvements in other indicators too,” said Suman, adding that the current improvement would help to bring down the non-compliance rate to 30 percent.
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