Lok Sabha Question No. 242 (STARRED), answered on 2018-01-04
Subject: Unused Airstrips and Airports
Ministry: CIVIL AVIATION
Asked by: P. C. MOHAN

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF CIVIL AVIATION LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO.

8 242 (To be answered on the January 2018) 4th

## UNUSED AIRSTRIPS AND AIRPORTS

*242. SHRI PC MOHAN

## Will the Minister of CIVIL AVIATION

- () if s0, the details thereof; StatefUTwise;

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be pleased to state:-

- (2) whether a large number of airstrips and airports in the country are still lying unused;
2. whether the Government proposes to make these airstrips and airports operational;
3. (e) the names of airlines which have shown interest in starting services from/to these airstripslairports?
4. (d) if the details thereof along with the steps taken by the Government in this regard till date; and

## ANSWER

(Shri Ashok Gajapathi Raju Pusapati)

Minister of CIVIL AVIATION

(a) to (e): A Statement is laid on the Table of the House:

Statement in to parts (a) to (e) of the Starred Question No. 242 for answer on 04.01.2018 regarding Unused Airstrips and Airports 1 reply

- (a) & (b): Yes; Madam Out of a total of 476 airportslairstrips in the country owned by Defence establishments, Airports Authority of India (AAI); State Governments, Private companies etc;, only 129 airports are owned and managed by AAI The State/UT wise list of unused airportslairstrips of AAI is at Annexure-I.
- (c) & (d): Madam. The National Civil Aviation Policy, 2016 provides for revival of un-served and under-served airports on demand basis depending on firm commitment from the airlines operators and the State Governments who agree to provide various concessions envisaged in the policy. The Government has granted & budgetary support of Rs.4500/- crore for revival of 50 un-served and under-served airports/airstrips of the\_AAI, Civil Enclaves: State Out of these 16 airports have already been revived under the Regional Connectivity Scheme (RCS): Yes;
- (e) In the first round of RCS bidding, five airlines viz , Airline Allied Services; Spicejet Ltd,; Turbo Megha Airways PvtLtd,; Deccan Charters Pvt: Ltd , and Air Odis" a Aviation Pvt: Ltd.have shown interest to start services from these airstrips/ airports:

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## NON-OPERATIONALIUNUSED AIRPORTS OF AAI

| SNo_   | Name of the State IUT   | Name of Airport                      |
|--------|-------------------------|--------------------------------------|
| 1      | Arunachal Pradesh       | 1Daparizo 2 Passighat 3.Tezu         |
| 2      | Andhra Pradesh          | 4 Donakonda                          |
| 3_     | Assam                   | 5,Rupsi 6, Shella                    |
|        | Bihar                   | Z Jogbani Raxaul 9 Muzaffarpur       |
| 5      | Chhattisgarh            |                                      |
| 6_     | Gujarat                 | 11 Deesa (Palanpur)                  |
| 7      | Jharkhand               | 13_Deoghar                           |
| 8_     | Madhya Pradesh          | 14, Khandwa 16.Satna                 |
| 9      | Mizoram                 | 17 . Aizawl (Turial)                 |
| 10     | Odisha                  | 18 Jharsuguda                        |
| 13     | Tamilnadu               | 19. Vellore 20.Tanjavour (CE)        |
| 12,    | Telarigana              | 21 Nadirgul 22 Warangal              |
| 13_    |                         | 23. Kailashar 24_Kamalpur 25. Khowai |
| 14_    | Uttar Pradesh           |                                      |
| 15.    | West Bengal             | 28 Asansol 29 Balurghat 30. Malda    |

## ANNEXUREI

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