The Nepal Air Traffic Controller's Association has been striving to make air transportation safe, regular and reliable in Nepal since its establishment in 1991, the National News Agency RSS reported Saturday.

Addressing a program organized to mark the International Air Traffic Controller's Day here Friday, participants stressed the need to implement the capacity and skill of the existing technical, physical and human resource in the air travel service in order to make it further reliable and safe.

Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation Pradeep Gyawali stressed the need to make the air travel management further efficient due to the country's geographical and climatic diversity.

He also issued instructions to make no consideration when it comes about the technical aspect of the air travel.

Gyawali was quoted by the RSS as saying that the government was fully committed for promotion and development of the air service adding that the government is to introduce a new regulation for reforms of the civil aviation.

The International Air Traffic Controller's Association was formed by the initiatives to 12 countries on October 20, 1961.

In Nepal, some 250 airplanes land and take off daily from the Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, the only international airport in the country.

(Xinhua News Agency October 23, 2006)