Lok Sabha Question No. 3198 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2017-08-03
Subject: Development of Regional Airports
Ministry: CIVIL AVIATION
Asked by: HARI OM PANDEY

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF CIVIL AVIATION LOK SABHA

UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. : 3198 (To be answered on the August 2017) 3rd

## DEVELOPMENT OF REGIONAL AIRPORTS

## 3198 SHRI HARI OM PANDAY

## Will the Minister of CIVIL AVIATION

- (b) if s0, the details thereof;

be pleased to state:-

- (a) whether the Government has started all the regional airports in non-metro urban centres to promote the aviation industry;
- (c) if not; the reasons therefor; and
- (d) the details of small towns selected to be included in the domestic aviation network along with the current status of their development?

## ANSWER

## Minister of State in the Ministry of CIVIL AVIATION

(Shri Jayant Sinha)

(a) to (d): Government of India, Ministry of Civil Aviation has launched Regional Connectivity Scheme (RCS) UDAN (Ude Desh ka Aam Naagrik) in October, 2016 with the objective to facilitate stimulate regional air connectivity to currently underserved and unserved airports In order to implement the scheme, Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has approved budgetary provision of Rs. 4500 crores for revival of un-served/underserved airportslairstrips in the country: The revival of airstripslairports is "demand driven" depending upon firm commitment from airline operators as well as from the State Government for providing various concessions. AAI, the implementing agency of RCS-UDAN has awarded 128 routes connecting 43 unserved and under-served airports (details are at Annexure) to 5 selected airlines for commencing operations under RCS-UDAN in the Ist round of bidding: RCS flights from seven RCS airports namely Shimla, Nanded, iave aiready commenced.

| S.No.   | Name 0f unserved and under-served Airport   | State            |
|---------|---------------------------------------------|------------------|
| 1       | Bathinda                                    | Punjab           |
| 2       | Shimla                                      | Himachal Pradesh |
| 3_      | Agra                                        | Uttar Pradesh    |
| 4       | Bikaner(Nal)                                | Rajasthan        |
| 5       | Gwalior                                     | Madhya Pradesh   |
| 6       | Kadapa                                      | Andhra Pradesh_  |
| 7       | Ludhiana                                    | Punjab           |
| 8_      | Nanded                                      | Maharashtra      |
| 9       | Pathankot                                   | Punjab           |
| 10_     | Vidyanagar                                  | Karnataka        |
| 11.     | Andal (Durgapur)                            | West Bengal      |
| 12      | Burnpur                                     | West Bengal_     |
| 13_     | Cooch Behar                                 | West Bengal_     |
| 14.     | Jamshedpur                                  | Jharkhand        |
| 15,     | Rourkela                                    | Odisha           |
| 16.     | Bhavnagar                                   | Gujarat          |
| 17.     | Diu                                         | Daman and Diu    |
| 18.     | Jamnagar                                    | Gujarat          |
| 19.     | Adampur                                     | Punjab           |
| 20      | Kandla                                      | Gujarat          |
| 21_     | Kanpur(Chakeri)                             | Uttar Pradesh    |
| 22_     | Kullu(Bhuntar)                              | Himachal Pradesh |
| 23      | Mithapur (Dwarka)                           | Gujarat          |
| 24.     | Mundra                                      | Gujarat          |
| 25.     | Pantnagar_                                  | Uttarakhancl     |
| 26      | Puducherry                                  | Puducherry       |
| 27.     | Porbandar                                   | Gujarat          |
| 28      | Shillong(Barapani)                          | Meghalaya        |
| 29_     | Ambikapur                                   | Chhattisgarh     |
| 30      | Bilaspur                                    | Chhattisgarh     |
| 31      | Jagdalpur                                   | Chhattisgarh     |
| 32_     | Jaisalmer                                   | Rajasthan        |
| 33.     | Jalgaon                                     | Maharashtra:     |
| 34.     | Jeypore                                     | Odisha           |
| 35.     | Jharsuguda                                  | Odisha           |
| 36      | Kolhapur                                    | Maharashtra      |
| 37_     | Mysore (Mandacally)                         | Karnataka        |
| 38_     | Neyveli                                     | Tamil Nadu       |
| 39      | Ozar Nasik                                  | Maharashtra      |
| 40      | Raigarh                                     | Chhattisgarh_    |
|         | Salem                                       | Tamil Nadu       |
| 42      | Sholapur                                    | Maharashtra      |
| 43.     | Utkela                                      | Odisha           |

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