Work starts on Civil Aviation Authority’s sub office at Mattala airport

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With the opening of the Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport (MRIA), the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) of Sri Lanka has decided to extend its regulatory services in respect to aviation safety, security and air transport economics to cover the activities that are taking place at MRIA.

Accordingly, the Board of Directors of the CAA, at the direction of Piyankara Jayaratne, Minister of Civil Aviation, has taken steps to build a permanent sub office of the CAA at MRIA to cater to this requirement.

The foundation stone for the construction of the CAA sub office with a floor area of 700m2 at a cost of Rs. 39 million was laid last week by Chamal Rajapaksa, the Speaker of Parliament, at MRIA at the invitation of Piyankara Jayaratne.

Gitanjana Gunawardena, Deputy Minister of Civil Aviation, Namal Rajapaksa, MP for the Hambantota district, Dr. Ravindra Ruberu, Secretary, Ministry of Civil Aviation, Gen. Rohan Daluwatte, Chairman, Civil Aviation Authority of Sri Lanka and Prasanna Wickramasuriya, Chairman, Airport and Aviation Services (Sri Lanka), participated at the foundation laying ceremony.

The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) of Sri Lanka which is a public corporation was established by an Act of Parliament in 2002 as an independent specialist aviation regulator. Unlike many other countries, there is no direct government funding of the CAA’s work as its costs are met entirely from its own sources of revenue.

The role of the CAA is primarily to enhance aviation safety performance of the State by pursuing targeted and continuous improvements in systems, culture, processes and capability in compliance with the international standards and recommended practices, improving choice and value for aviation consumers now and in the future by promoting competitive markets, contributing to consumers’ ability to make informed decisions and protecting them where appropriate and improving environmental performance through more efficient use of airspace and make an efficient contribution to reducing the aviation industry’s environmental impacts.