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The central government has the power to regulate and cap airfares when necessary and actively monitors airlines' adherance to declared tariff sheets, Civil Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu said on Friday.

"According to the Aircraft Act as it stands, the central government has the power that, in extraordinary circumstances when there is a possibility of misuse of the air tariff deregulation it can intervene to set things right and cap fares, so that passengers do not experience opportunistic pricing at that time," Naidu told lawmakers in Lok Sabha.

India's aviation sector was upended recently due to IndiGo's crew rostering issues on

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