Lok Sabha Question No. 6324 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-04-05
Subject: Relaxation in Norms under UDAN Scheme
Ministry: CIVIL AVIATION
Asked by: M. UDHAYAKUMAR

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF CIVIL AVIATION LOK SABHA

UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. : 6324 (To be answered on the Sth

## Relaxation in Norms under UDAN Scheme

6324. ADV. M: UDHAYAKUMAR

Will the Minister of CIVIL AVIATION

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be pleased to state:-

- (c) evhether the Government has relaxed norms for its flagship regional flying scheme called UDAN to allow for more connectivity, if $O, the details thereof;
- () whether the Government has also diluted norms that restricted two
- (b) whether these relaxations include dilution 0f exciusively clause that nandated that only one airline flies on one route in the initial years, if the details thereof; SO,
- airports in close proximity to participate in the bidding, if the details thereof; and
- (d) whether the North Eastern Region and Jammu & Kashmir would be the focus areas in the second round 0f bidding and if s0, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

Minister of State in the Ministry of CIVIL AVIATION `

(Shri Jayant Sinha)

(a) to (d): Revisions made under Regional Connectivity Scheme (RCS) UDAN (Ude Desh ka Aam Nagrik) 2 are as below: Key

ii) Selected Airiine Operator may issue No-Objection Certificate\_ (NOC) to other airline operator(s) to operate on the respective RCS Route willing

0 To provide enhanced connectivity and ease the formation of networks under the Schene routes with stage length less than 150 Kms for operations througi fixed aircraft as RCS Routes are accepted. Such routes permitted under the Scheme and Viability Funding (VGF) calculated accordingly for aircrafts. wing Gap wing

ii) To provide more flexibility to Selected Airline Operators (SAO); maximum number of flights with VGF has been increased to 14 for Priority Areas and 7 departures for RCS Routes other than Priority RCS Routes Further, the SAOs can anytime increase the number of flights on RCS Routes to any number but without provision 0f notified concessions for such additional capacity.

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- iv) To provide operational flexibility t Selected Airline Operators, no minimuin performance Specifications on Non-RCS Routes as of Network Proposals under the Scheme: part applicable
- CO)ocusing Priority Areas to expand the Remote Area connectivity
- VGF for v) To encourage helicopter operations underthe Scheme; inflows in the Helicopters increased and upto 10% Of the estimated annual censdereed as RCS Seats and accordingly; VGF shall be provided Caps
- Pradesh Utearakhand, North Eastern Region; Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Lakshadweep Islands.
- ix) with VGF; shall be minimum of three (3) and a maximum of Flights/week 9 week from the same RCs Airport  RCS Flights fourteen (14) departures per operated on at least three (3) days of the week
- RCS Route in which at least one of the viii) Priority RCS Route shall mean an morer thae foueteen (14) scheduled commercial flight departures Per week as the latest flight schedule published by the DGCA on its website
- are x) Operations wili be permitted Oniy for Priority RCS Routes;
- RCS Routes Category 1A aircraft

& Kashmir is attached as Annexure-l.

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A list of RCS networks (Fixed Wing & Helicopter) awarded in Znd round o bidding which are involving RCS routes of North Eastern Region and Jammu

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| List of RCS routes/ networks awarded ta Selected Airline   | List of RCS routes/ networks awarded ta Selected Airline       | List of RCS routes/ networks awarded ta Selected Airline   | List of RCS routes/ networks awarded ta Selected Airline   | Annexure-1                    |
|------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------|
| S.No.                                                      | in RCS Routes/ Networks                                        |                                                            |                                                            |                               |
| RCS Route Operator Fixed-Wing                              | RCS Route Operator Fixed-Wing                                  | RCS Route Operator Fixed-Wing                              | RCS Route Operator Fixed-Wing                              | RCS Route Operator Fixed-Wing |
| 1.                                                         | Kolkata- Pakyong- Guwahati- Pakyong-Kolkata                    | Guwahati To Pakyonz                                        |                                                            |                               |
| 1.                                                         | Kolkata- Pakyong- Guwahati- Pakyong-Kolkata                    | Pakyong To Guwahati                                        |                                                            |                               |
| 1.                                                         | Kolkata- Pakyong- Guwahati- Pakyong-Kolkata                    | Pakyong To Kolkata                                         |                                                            |                               |
| 1.                                                         | Kolkata- Pakyong- Guwahati- Pakyong-Kolkata                    | Kolkata To Pakyong                                         |                                                            |                               |
| 2,                                                         | Kolkata- Jorhat-Passighat-Jorhat- Kolkata                      | Jorhat To Kolkata                                          | Spicejet Zoom Air                                          |                               |
| 2,                                                         | Kolkata- Jorhat-Passighat-Jorhat- Kolkata                      | Jorhat To Passighat                                        | Spicejet Zoom Air                                          |                               |
| 2,                                                         | Kolkata- Jorhat-Passighat-Jorhat- Kolkata                      | Passighat To Jorhat                                        | Spicejet Zoom Air                                          |                               |
| 2,                                                         | Kolkata- Jorhat-Passighat-Jorhat- Kolkata                      | Kolkata To Jorhat                                          | Spicejet Zoom Air                                          |                               |
| 3.                                                         | Kolkata-Jorhat-Tezu-Jorhat- Kolkata                            | Jorhat To Kolkata                                          | Zoom Air                                                   |                               |
| 3.                                                         | Kolkata-Jorhat-Tezu-Jorhat- Kolkata                            | Jorhat To Tezu                                             | Zoom Air                                                   |                               |
| 3.                                                         | Kolkata-Jorhat-Tezu-Jorhat- Kolkata                            | Tezu To Jorhat                                             | Zoom Air                                                   |                               |
| 3.                                                         | Kolkata-Jorhat-Tezu-Jorhat- Kolkata                            | Kolkata To Jorhat                                          | Zoom Air                                                   |                               |
| 4.                                                         | Kolkata-Lilabari-Kolkata                                       | Lilabari To Kolkata                                        |                                                            |                               |
| 5,                                                         | Kolkata-Tezpur                                                 | Kolkata To Lilabari Kolkata To Tezpur                      | Spicejet                                                   |                               |
| 6                                                          | Lucknow-Hindan-Kolkata-jorhat- Kolkata-Hindan-Lucknow          | Jorhat To Kolkata                                          | Zoom Air                                                   |                               |
| 6                                                          | Lucknow-Hindan-Kolkata-jorhat- Kolkata-Hindan-Lucknow          | Kolkata To Jorhat                                          | Zoom Air                                                   |                               |
| 7                                                          | Bhatinda-Jammu- Bhatinda                                       | Bhatinda To Jammu                                          | Indigo                                                     |                               |
| 7                                                          | Bhatinda-Jammu- Bhatinda                                       | Jamru To Bhatinda                                          | Indigo                                                     |                               |
| 8.                                                         | Srinagar- Kargil- Srinagar- Kishtwar Jammu- Kishtwar- Srinagar | Kargil To Srinagar                                         | Alliance Air Maritime Energy                               |                               |
| 8.                                                         | Srinagar- Kargil- Srinagar- Kishtwar Jammu- Kishtwar- Srinagar | Srinagar To Kargil                                         | Alliance Air Maritime Energy                               |                               |
| 9.                                                         | Delhi-Pakyong-Kolkata-Bokaro- Kolkata-Pakyong-Delhi            | Bokaro To Kolkata                                          |                                                            |                               |
| 9.                                                         | Delhi-Pakyong-Kolkata-Bokaro- Kolkata-Pakyong-Delhi            | Kolkata To Bokaro                                          |                                                            |                               |
| 9.                                                         | Delhi-Pakyong-Kolkata-Bokaro- Kolkata-Pakyong-Delhi            | Kolkata To Pakyong                                         |                                                            |                               |
| 9.                                                         | Delhi-Pakyong-Kolkata-Bokaro- Kolkata-Pakyong-Delhi            | Pakyong To Delhi                                           |                                                            |                               |
| 9.                                                         | Delhi-Pakyong-Kolkata-Bokaro- Kolkata-Pakyong-Delhi            | Pakyong To Kolkata                                         |                                                            |                               |
| 10.                                                        | Tezpur-Kolkata                                                 | Delhi To Pakyong_ Tezpur To Kolkata                        | Spicejet                                                   |                               |
| 11.                                                        | Shillong-Tezpur-Lilabari-Kolkata Lilabari-Tezpur-Shillong      | Kolkata To Lilabari                                        | Zoom Air AAA Aviation                                      |                               |
| 11.                                                        | Shillong-Tezpur-Lilabari-Kolkata Lilabari-Tezpur-Shillong      | Lilabari To Kolkata                                        | Zoom Air AAA Aviation                                      |                               |
| 11.                                                        | Shillong-Tezpur-Lilabari-Kolkata Lilabari-Tezpur-Shillong      | Lilabari To Tezpur                                         | Zoom Air AAA Aviation                                      |                               |
| 11.                                                        | Shillong-Tezpur-Lilabari-Kolkata Lilabari-Tezpur-Shillong      | Tezpur_To Lilabari                                         | Zoom Air AAA Aviation                                      |                               |
| 11.                                                        | Shillong-Tezpur-Lilabari-Kolkata Lilabari-Tezpur-Shillong      | Tezpur To Shillong                                         | Zoom Air AAA Aviation                                      |                               |
| Shillong To Tezpur Helicopter                              | Shillong To Tezpur Helicopter                                  | Shillong To Tezpur Helicopter                              | Shillong To Tezpur Helicopter                              | Shillong To Tezpur Helicopter |
| 12.                                                        | Imphal-Moreh(Heliport)-Imphal                                  | Moreh (Heliport) To Imphal                                 |                                                            |                               |
| 12.                                                        | Imphal-Moreh(Heliport)-Imphal                                  | Imphal To Moreh(Heliport)                                  |                                                            |                               |
| 13.                                                        | Imphal -Tamenglong(Heliport)" Jiribam(Heliport)                | Jiribam(Heliport) To                                       | Pawan Hans Pawan Hans                                      |                               |
| 13.                                                        | Imphal -Tamenglong(Heliport)" Jiribam(Heliport)                | Tamenglong(Heliport)                                       | Pawan Hans Pawan Hans                                      |                               |

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## List of RCS routes/ networks awarded to Selected Airline Operator(SAO) in 2nd round of bidding under RCS-UDAN Version 2.9

Annexure-1

| S.No.   | RCS Routes/ Networks                                                                     | RCS Route                                                                                                                                                | Operator                       |
|---------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|         | Tamenglong(Heliport) ~Imphal Irnphal _ Thanlon(Heliport) Parbung(Heliport)-              | Tamenglong(Heliport} To Imphal Tamenglong(Heliport} To Jiribam(Heliport) Imphal To Tamenglong(Heliport) Parbung(Heliport) To                             | Pawan Hans                     |
| 14,     | Thanlon(Heliport)- Imphal Guwahati -Tezpur- Jorhat- Guwahati                             | Thanlon(Heliport) Thanlon(Heliport) To Imphal Thanlon(Heliport) To Parbung(Heliport) Imphal To Thanlon(Hleliport)                                        |                                |
| 15.     | Dibrugarh ~Jorhat-Tezpur-                                                                | Dibrugarh To Jorhat Jorhat To Dibrugarh Jorhat To Tezpur Tezpur_To Jorhat                                                                                | Pawan Hans                     |
| 16.     | Guwahati -Nagaon(Heliport)- Tezpur - Itanagar(Heliport)-Tezpur Nagaon(Heliport)-Guwahati | Itanagar(Heliport) To Tezpur Nagaon(Heliport) Tc Guwahati Nagaon(Heliport) To Tezpur Tezpur To Itanagar(Heliport) Tezpur_To Nagaon(Heliport) Guwahati To |                                |
| 17.     | Dibrugarh -Lilabari Itanagar(Heliport)-  Lilabari Dibrugarh                              | Nagaon(Heliport) Lilabari To Dibrugarh Lilabari To Itanagar(Heliport)_ Dibrugarh To Lilabari                                                             | Skyone Airwavs                 |
| 18.     | Dibrugarh Daparizo  Yinghiong Dibrugarh                                                  | Itanagar(Heliport) To Lilabari Daparizo To Yinghiong Yinghiong_To Dibrugarh Dibrugarh To Daparizo                                                        | Skyone Airways Skyorie Airways |
| 19.     | Dibrugarh Passighat- Tuting Dibrugarh                                                    | Passighat To Tuting Tuting To Dibrugarh                                                                                                                  | Skyone Airways                 |
| 20.     | Dibrugarh -Tezu Walong- Dibrugarh                                                        | Tezu To Walong Walong To Dibrugarh_                                                                                                                      | Skyone Airways                 |
|         |                                                                                          | Dibrugarh To Tezu                                                                                                                                        |                                |
| 21.     | Dibrugarh ~Itanagar(Heliport) -Ziro Ziro To Dibrugarh                                    |                                                                                                                                                          | Heligo                         |
|         | Dibrugarh                                                                                |                                                                                                                                                          |                                |

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