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To mark the 80 Years of the International Civil Aviation Day...

10 December 2024

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59th Asia Pacific DGCA Conference

22 October 2024

The 59th Conference of Directors General of Civil Aviation (DGCA)...

පසුගිය දෙසැම්බර් 30 දින කාර්යාල පරිශ්රය තුල විදුලි කාන්දුවක් හේතුවෙන් හටගත් හදිසි ගිනි තත්වය ක්ෂණිකව මැඩපැවැත්වීම වෙනුවෙන් කැපවී කටයුතු කල ආරක්ෂක අංශයේ නිලධාරීන් ඇගයීමට ලක්කිරීම සිදුවිය.
 
ආරක්ෂක නිලධාරීන්ගේ කැපවීම සහ අවබෝධයෙන් යුතුව සේවයේ නිරතව සිටීම හේතුවෙන් හදිසි තත්වය පාලනය කිරීමට හැකි වූ බැවින්, ආරක්ෂක කටයුතු අධීක්ෂණය භරව කටයුතු කරන අතිරේක අධ්යක්ෂ ජනරාල් පී. ඒ. ජයකාන්ත මහතාගේ නිර්දේශ මත මෙම සේවා ඇගයීමේ වැඩසටහන සංවිධානය කරන ලදි.
සිවිල් ගුවන්සේවා අධ්යක්ෂ ජනරාල් කපිතාන් තේමිය අබේවික්රම මහතා විසින් එදින සේවයේ නිරතව සිටි ආරක්ෂක අංශ නිලධාරීන් වෙත සේවා ඇගයීම් ලිපි සමගින් මූල්ය තිලිණ ප්රධානය කල අතර එම අවස්ථාවට අතිරේක අධ්යක්ෂ ජනරාල් පී. ඒ. ජයකාන්ත මහතා ද සහභාගී විය.
CAASL rolled out a COVID-19 vaccination program in co-ordination with the Sri Lanka Health Ministry.
 
The vaccination program is another step forward to safeguard our colleagues who serve many aviation industry customers who walk through our office premises to obtain services.
 
Together with other measures, we ensure the health and safety of our valuable customers, employees, and the communities. The program was launched under the guidance of Mr. Upul Dharmadasa Chairman of Civil Aviation Authority of Sri Lanka & Capt. Themiya Abeywickrama Director General of Civil Aviation.
 
The program was organized and implemented by Dr. Bimal Dias and the Aeromedical staff of the Civil Aviation Authority of Sri Lanka.

On 7th December each year, the community engaged in air transport industry commemorates the International Civil Aviation Day which coincides with the birth anniversary of the Convention on International Civil Aviation which is commonly referred to as the ‘Chicago Convention 1944’. In 1996 the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed that 7 December of each year was to be the International Civil Aviation Day with the purpose of commemorating the anniversary of emergence of the Convention on International Civil Aviation on 7th December 1944 laying the foundation for the establishment of International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and also for recognizing the importance air transport industry for the socio economic development of all countries of the world without any distinction.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It is a regulatory requirement to appoint an Aviation Security Service Provider with a license issued by the Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) for the provision and maintenance of Aviation Security Services at the civil airports in Sri Lanka.
On successful completion of the certification process, conducted by the Civil Aviation Authority of Sri Lanka (CAASL) Aviation Security Inspectorate under the leadership of Mr. P A Jayakantha (Deputy Director General Aviation Security Regulation) since the year 2015, Airport & Aviation Services (Sri Lanka) Limited (AASL) was issued the Aviation Security Service Provider Licence, on the satisfactory demonstration to the Director General of Civil Aviation of their conformance to the applicable requirements, stipulated in terms of the provisions in the Civil Aviation Act. No. 14 of 2010.
The AASL will continue to provide the aviation security services, in accordance with the approved Airport Security Programme in which they are authorized to provide Aviation Security Services at civil Airports in Sri Lanka, namely Bandaranaike International Airport Katunayake, Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport, Colombo Airport Ratmalana, Batticaloa International Airport and Jaffna International Airport.
The Aviation Security Service Provider License was awarded to Major General (Rtd.) G. A. Chandrasiri (Chairman AASL) by Capt. Themiya Abeywickrama (DGCA and the Appropriate Authority for Aviation Security) at a simple reception, held on 08th September 2020 at CAASL headquarters, Katunayaka with the participation of Mr. Amitha Wijayasuriya (Vice Chairman CAASL), Mr. P A Jayakantha (Actg. Additional Director General CAASL) and Mr. Rajeewasiri Sooriyaarachchi (Vice Chairman AASL) together with senior officials of CAASL, AASL and Aviation Security stakeholders including State Security agencies and industry in attendance.

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