REGD/ADDATED 18.5.2011

TOTHE DIRECTOR GENERAL OF CIVIL AVIATIONSAFDARJUNG AIRPORTNEW DELHI

SUB: APPEAL ON BEHALF OF THE STUDENTS AND AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE ENGINEER LICENSE HOLDERS

Dear Sir,We the licensee as well as the student of Aircraft Maintenance

Engineering encroaches upon your valuable time to consider our

grievances as have been existed in our course being provided by the

Institutes/Colleges affiliated to DGCA.

At the outset, before going into the details of the grievances

which we are facing, we may point out the brief facts leading to the

Course of Aircraft Maintenance Engineering.

The first and foremost criteria for getting into admission of

Aircraft Maintenance Engineering is a student should have 10+2 with

50% aggregates marks in Physics and Mathematics or Graduation with

Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics as their subjects or having

Diploma in Engineering. Only those candidates, who are having the

abovementioned qualification, can apply for Aircraft Maintenance

Engineering Course. The above said Course is being conducted by

Indian Institute of Aeronautics or any other Institutes affiliated to

DGCA. The candidates, who applied for taking Aircraft Maintenance

Engineering Course, thereafter had to take Admission Test consisting

of 100 Marks, comprising of objective type questions of 80 marks and

subjective type question of 20 marks.

It is relevant to mention here that after getting selected in the

admission test, one has to pay hefty amount towards course fees and

after paying the said course fees one has started three year course in

Aircraft Maintenance Engineering, Affiliated to DGCA. It is stated that

during counseling with the student it was projected to the student

that, this is a very challenging and profession course, therefore

withdrawal from the course are almost nil and even if one has to

withdraw from the course, that should be done according to the rules

and regulations provided in the prospectus. Further during the first

week of college sessions the faculty and office staff boasted about the

AME course thereby claiming 90% placement with a salary package of

Rs.4,00,000/- to Rs.5,00,000/- into aviation sector with different

airlines operating in India and abroad. However, one has to keep in

mind that the student should have to clear his/her DGCA papers to get

the license for maintenance of Aircraft.

It is stated that the students who had got admitted in three

years AME course and had done regular classes including practical and

theory paper on semester basis, even after spending hefty amount

towards tuition fees, college fees, examination fees, hostel fees for

outstation students etc. It is relevant to mention here that the student

after clearing all the semester in the College Examination find

themselves to be eligible for DGCA Examination and accordingly, after

hard work and all efforts to clear the DGCA paper passed out the

DGCA Examination with a hope to get lucrative job in the Aviation

Sector having handsome package. However, the nightmare of the

students starts from the date when they got the Basic Aircraft

Maintenance License (Paper – 3) from the DGCA. It would not be out

of place to mention here that after getting license (Paper – 3) from the

DGCA, they find themselves in the middle of desert having no

placement in the Aviation Sector as they do not find any

advertisement for Aircraft Maintenance Engineer’s either in the

Government Sector what to say of in the private Sector Airlines, who

runs Aircraft Company.

The shocking aspect of the matter is that the students who

qualify as an Aircraft Maintenance Engineers does not even get

considered as a Graduate by any institution or corporate sector, if the

student got admitted themselves and completed the Aircraft

Maintenance Engineering Course and had obtained the Basic Aircraft

Maintenance License based on the 10+2 qualification remains same

after 3 year of AME course. The only future prospects of those

students are in the Aviation Sector with almost 0% opening and find

themselves rendering jobless after completing so called Aircraft

Maintenance Engineering Course and after spending 3 (three) valuable

years in completing the Course. Hence the result of getting such

Course is almost nil or one can recognize it in negativity as they are

neither a qualified graduate nor an Engineer. It is pertinent to mention

here that nobody (company, firm or Aircraft owner) employee them as

a trainee even the students want to get into it without any salary for

experience, rather, all the Aviation Sector do demand years of

experience Certificate from the Basic License holders in order to get a

job in the aviation Sector. Moreover, during all these job search

procedure, one could get as an experience was to find all corruptions

into this field, and to get job into this aviation sector one need to have

money for donations/bribe or have recommendation of MP/ Ministers

or businessman, who can get a job in this sector.

Now, it is relevant to point out the discrepancies being meted

out to the students of Aircraft Maintenance Engineering course and

Aircraft Maintenance Engineer License Holder. It is pertinent to

mention here that similar course is being conducted by Directorate

General of Shipping, and there are huge numbers of college affiliated

to DGS. The students who have passed out from DGS are well

recognized, well placed and none of them feel frustrated and the

placement ratio is almost 90% therefore, it is not understood as to

why either the DGCA or the Ministry of Civil Aviation has treated the

student of Aircraft Maintenance Engineer step motherly. Moreover, it is

well settled that any technical qualification is covered or affiliated

under AICTE or under UGC but the course of AME has neither been

recognized or affiliated by AICTE nor under UGC. It is not understood

as to why the DGCA has not taken any step all these years to provide

the student with any degree or certificate and that too the

abovementioned course has not been recognized by any Government

organizations, including Government of India, institutions or in the

corporate sector. The AME license holder is merely an ISC (10+2)

passed as they qualified three years back from the respective schools

and nothing more than that as the AME course is neither equivalent to

Graduation or Bachelor in Engineering. Thus the future of the students

doing AME course is very bleak and uncertain comparatively to the

other courses being affiliated to AICTE or UGC or Government of India.

Moreover, the grievance of such students/ license holders are

that though some aspirants get job in the Aviation Sector, they have

been exploited by the Airlines or Aircraft Company, and they are

forced to do the job after paying meager amount, as the officials of the

Aircraft Company knows it very well that there are huge number of

license holder are unemployed. Thus, running such courses is

exploiting the students where the Government is boasted upon

Education for all and where Education is there but no one is there to

recognize such education parted to the students of AME. Under these

circumstances, it is imperative that such education system should be

changed in order to bring right of equality to the Students going for

AME Course and other technical education being parted by the

Government of India or UGC or any technical education procured

which is affiliated under AICTE.

It is therefore, most respectfully prayed to your goodself to

kindly consider the grievances of the students/ AME License Holder

and necessary changes or modification or amendment in the education

system of AME be brought so as to enable the aspirants of AME will be

able to call themselves as graduate or may be given proper and equal

opportunity in the field in which they are qualified and to bring liquidity

to it.

An early immediate action in the matter shall be appreciated.

Thanking you

Yours faithfully