The Ministry of Civil Aviation has issued a draft National Air Sports Policy (NASP) to influence India’s eventuality for air sports, given its large geographical breadth, different geomorphology and fair rainfall conditions.

The draft NASP 2022 covers sports similar as aerobatics, aeromodelling, paragliding, drones, gliding, hang gliding, paragliding and skydiving.
An Air Sports Federation of India (ASFI) will be established as the apex governing body, according to the draft NASP.

Associations for each air sport will handle day-to- day conditioning. For case, the Paragliding Association of India will manage sports within its dimension.
The air sports associations shall be responsible to ASFI with respect to the nonsupervisory oversight and for furnishing safe, affordable, accessible, pleasurable and sustainable conduct of their separate air sport, the draft policy stated.

ASFI’ll represent India at Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) and other global platforms related to air sports, it noted. The FAI, headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland, is the world governing body for air sports.

All competitions in India will be conducted as per the guidelines laid down by the FAI, the draft NASP noted.

According to the ministry, the new action will grease lesser participation and success of Indians in global air sporting events. Seminaries, sodalities and universities will be encouraged to include air sports in their class, it noted.

Domestic design, development and manufacturing of air sports outfit will be promoted in line with the Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyaan, it mentioned. Incapability to apply safety norms by an air sports association might lead to correctional action by the ASFI against similar association, including fiscal penalties, suspense or redundancy, it noted.