India, July 9 -- The directorate general of civil aviation (DGCA) will rank the Flying Training Organisations (FTOs) from October 1 based on safety, performance, compliance, student support, and operations, in a bid to enhance aviation training standards.

A notice issued by the DGCA on Tuesday said that the ranking will provide a comparative framework to assess the performance and quality of FTOs based on uniform and objective criteria, which promotes standardisation in training quality across institutions.

"Ranking will be published bi-annually, preferably on October 1 and April 1 of every year. Categorisation of FTO ranking will be based on the following overall score achieved by individual FTOs," the statement said.

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