As with most of the things in DGCA, this new class 1 med requirement for expats is more to do with greasing some more palms, than about safety.
Would you care to explain which palms and exactly how?
@drive73
It's pure and simple Indian corruption at it's greatest.
Exactly how does a a pilot declared unfit can get a 'Fit to Fly' assessment? Who to bribe, how to bribe?
Does the guy who drafter the CAR get a cut?
I agree there is lots of corruption in India, but point where it is and not where it is absent.
The only way I can sense some corruption is when the CAR doesn't come into effect. Because then it is a sort of arm twisting technique to force the recruitment firms to pay up in order to keep the proposed CAR in abeyance.
But if it is passed, the corruption angle will be difficult to justify.