New Delhi, Oct. 28 -- The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has selected 42 candidates for appointment as Assistant Directors (AD) of operations in the aviation regulator, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), in a large scale recruitment in four years, people familiar with the matter said, adding that the candidates will start working by the end of November. The appointments are expected to strengthen India's aviation safety oversight, and come months after Hindustan Times reported DGCA's staffing crunch on 19 July. On July 21, civil aviation minister Ram Mohan Naidu told Parliament that DGCA would recruit 190 people by the end of October. The recommendations were made against 51 advertised vacancies, according to the final list published by the UPSC on October 15. According to documents reviewed by HT, until June this year, 48% of DGCA's 1,063 technical posts were vacant. The vacancies included 400 posts sanctioned and added in 2022 . Some of the vacancies were in key areas.htc...