An Act to establish and incorporate a national aviation University to facilitate and promote aviation studies and research to achieve excellence in areas of aviation management, policy, science and technology, aviation environment, training in governing fields of safety and security regulations on aviation and other related fields to produce quality human resources to cater to the needs of the aviation sector and to provide for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

Be it enacted by Parliament in the Sixty-fourth Year of the Republic of India as follows:—

1. (1) This Act may be called the Rajiv Gandhi National Aviation University Act, 2013.

(2) It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint and different dates may be appointed for different provisions of this Act.

2. In this Act, and in all Statutes made hereunder, unless the context otherwise requires,—

(a) ‘‘Academic Council’’ means the Academic Council of the University;

(b) ‘‘academic staff’’ means such categories of staff as are designated as academic staff by the Ordinances;