India approves 50 new low cost airports
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India has approved 50 new low cost small airports.
The low cost airports will be build by the Airports Authority of India (AAI).
India’s Civil Aviation sector will also see development of two new international airports at Bhubaneswar, Odisha and Imphal in Manipur. Alongside, eight new Greenfield Airports have been approved under the Public Private Partnership (PPP) mode. These airports include Navi Mumbai, Juhu (Mumbai), Goa, Kannur, Pune (Rajguru Nagar Chakan), Sriperumbudur, Bellary and Raigarh.
Furthermore, airport operations and maintenance through PPP contracts will also be introduced at AAI airports. The airports considered for PPP operations and maintenance is Chennai, Kolkata, Lucknow, Guwahati, Jaipur and Ahmedabad.
Below is the list of low cost airports to be developed by AAI.
State |
Airports |
Andhra Pradesh | Vijayawada, Nellore, Kurnool, Kadapa, Nizamabad, Tirupati, Anantapur & Karimnagar |
Jharkhand | Dhanbad, Bokaro & Hazaribagh |
Bihar | Muzaffarpur, Chapra & Sasaram |
Punjab | Ludhiana, Jalandhar & Firozpur |
Uttar Pradesh | Agra, Allahabad, Moradabad, Saharanpur, Meerut, Aligarh, Muzaffarnagar, Bijnor & Azamgarh |
Arunachal Pradesh | Tezu, Momdila & Along |
Assam | Silchar, Jorhat & Tezpur |
Madhya Pradesh | Gwalior, Singrauli, Burhanpur, Khandwa, Jabalpur, Sidhi & Shahdol |
Odisha | Brahmpur, Raurkela & Kendujhar |
Rajasthan | Ajmer, Kota, Bhilwada & Alwar |
Maharashtra | Kolhapur, Nasik, Jalgaon, Solapur & Amaravati |
Two new ports will also be developed at Sagar (West Bengal) and Durgarajapatnam in Andhra Pradesh under the PPP mode.
These projects have been approved by the Prime Minister of India, Manmohan Singh under the infrastructure targets for 2013-14. These targets are set through a detailed process, first in the Planning Commission by Member (Infrastructure) and later revised through a second round of meetings in the Prime Minister’s Office.
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