Action being taken against passengers not wearing masks properly: DGCA
The Hindu
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) informed the Delhi High Court on Wednesday that action was being taken against passengers who refuse to wear masks properly, including de-boarding from planes before departure or treating as “unruly passengers” during flight.
A Bench of Justices Navin Chawla and C. Hari Shankar said they were satisfied with the steps taken by the DGCA and decided to close the case initiated by the court itself on the protocol to be maintained by the passengers and the crew to curb spread of COVID-19. Justice Shankar had on March 8 passed a slew of guidelines to be followed by airlines, staff and passengers after he witnessed an alarming situation during the Air India flight from Kolkata to New Delhi on March 5, 2021.Aasheesh Pittie says birdwatching is not very unlike hunting, except that nothing is killed. “You track… you want to follow the bird… see it,” he says about this activity that he has pursued for nearly fifty years. Pittie, the editor of the ornithological journal Indian Birds, author of many classic reference books about birds and most recently, a collection of bird essays titled The Living Air: Pleasures of Birds and Birdwatching, was speaking at an event organised by the Archives of the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS).