Lok Sabha Question No. 3841 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2021-03-18
Subject: New Airports
Ministry: CIVIL AVIATION
Asked by: Manoj Kumar Tiwari, Nishikant  Dubey

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

NO. 3841 (To be answered on the March 2021)

## MINISTRY OF CIVIL AVIATION LOK SABHA UNSTARRED

## NEW AIRPORTS

3841.

SHRI MANOJ TIWARI DR NISHIKANT DUBEY

## Will the Minister of CIVIL AVIATION

be pleased to state:-

- (a) the details of new airports which have been made functional during each of the last three years; State-wise;
- whether the Government has taken steps for early completion and operational of airport in Delhi NCR and at Deoghar in Jharkhand; and
- (b) the number Of passengers served by these airports since were made operational; they
- (d) if so, the details thereof and the time by which these airports are likely to become operational for passengers?

## ANSWER

Minister of State (IC) in the Ministry of CIVIL AVIATION

(Shri Hardeep Singh Puri)

(a) & (b): Three new greenfield airports namely Pakyong in Sikkim, Kannur in Kerala and Kalaburagi in Karnataka have been made functional during the last three years Further, 56 Regional Connectivity Scheme (RCS) UDAN (Ude Desh ka Aam Nagrik) airports including 5 heliports, 2 water aerodromes and the above three greenfield airports have been operationalized for operating RCS flights across the country Out of 56 RCS airports, 37 number of RCS airports are unserved airports and commercial operations have started; for the first time in these airports State-wise list of these airports is at Annexure. Approximately 60 lakh passengers have travelled through RCS flights s0 far;

in principle' approval to Government %f Uttar 08.05.2018. State Government has awarded the project to Mls Zurich Airports International for development of the airport under Public Private Partnership (PPP): Probable Date of Completion (PDC) of Phase-I of the airport development is in 2023-24.

As regards development of Deoghar airport in Jharkhand, Airports Authority of India (AAI) Code 3C VFR (ATR 72) type of aircraft; The Probable Date of Completion (PDC) is June 2021 subject to obligations to be fulfilled by the State Government: However;, the timeline for completion of airport project depends upon factors such as Iand acquisition, availability of mandatory clearances, financial closure by the individual operator etc many

## Statement referred in reply to part (a) & (b) of the Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 3841 for answer on 18.03.2021

## List of Airports operationalized for RCS flights as on 15.03.2021

| SNo.   | State            | Airport                             | Date of Operationalisation   |
|--------|------------------|-------------------------------------|------------------------------|
| 1      | Andhra Pradesh   | Kadapa (Underserved)(Round-1)       | 27-April-2017                |
| 2      | Assam            | Jorhat (Underserved)(Round-2)       | 1-Aug-2018                   |
| 3      |                  | Lilabari (Underserved)(Round-2)     | 15-Jan-2019                  |
| 4      |                  | Tezpur (Underserved)Round-2)        | 26-April-2018                |
| 5      | Bihar            | Darbhanga(Round-1)                  | 08-Nov-2020                  |
| 6 _    | Chhattisgarh     | Jagdalpur(Round-1)                  | 14-June-2018                 |
| 7_     |                  | Bilaspur (Round-1)                  | 1-March-2021                 |
| 8      | Daman & Diu      | Diu (Underserved)(Round-1)          | 24-Feb-2018                  |
| 9      | Gujarat          | Bhavnagar (Underserved)(Round-1)    | 1-May-2018                   |
|        |                  | Jamnagar (Underserved)Round-1)      | 17-Feb-2018                  |
| 11.    |                  | Kandla(Round-1)                     | 1-July-2017                  |
| 12 _   |                  | Mundra(Round-1)                     | 17-Feb-2018                  |
| 13.    |                  | Porbandar (Underserved)(Round-1)    | 10-July-2017                 |
| 14.    |                  | Statue of Unity (W) (Round-3)       | 31-Oct-2020                  |
| 15,    |                  | Sabarmati River Front (W) (Round-3) | 31-Oct-2020                  |
| 16.    | Haryana          | Hissar (Round-2)                    | 14-Jan-2021                  |
| 17.    | Himachal Pradesh | Shimla(Round-1)                     | 27-April-2017                |
| 18.    |                  | Kullu (Underserved)(Round-3)        | 13-May-2019                  |
| 19.    | Karnataka        | Belgaum (Underserved)Round-3)       | 1-May-2019                   |
| 20_    |                  | Hubli (Underserved) (Round-2)       | 14-May-2018                  |
| 21     |                  | Mysore(Round-1)                     | 2-Sep-2017                   |
| 22_    |                  | Vidyanagar(Round-1)                 | 21-Sep-2017                  |
| 23_    |                  | Kalaburgi (Gulbarga)(Round-3)       | 22-Nov-2019                  |
| 24.    |                  | Bidar(Round-1)                      | 07-Feb-2020                  |
| 25 ,   | Kerala           | Kannur(Round-2)                     | 25-Jan-2019                  |
| 26.    | Madhya Pradesh   | Gwalior (UnderservedJ(Round-1)      | 31-May-2017                  |
| 27.    | Maharashtra      | Jalgaon(Round-1)                    | 23-Dec-2017                  |
| 28.    |                  | Kolhapur(Round-1)                   | 8-April-2018                 |
| 29.    |                  | Nanded(Round-1)                     | 27-April-2017                |
| 30_    |                  | Ozar (Nasik)(Round-1)               | 23-Dec-2017                  |
| 31     | Meghalaya        | Shillong (Underserved)Round-1)      | 26-April-2018                |
| 32     | Nagaland         | Dimapur (Underserved)Round-3)       | 07-Dec-2019                  |
| 33.    | Odisha           | Jharsuguda(Round-1)                 | 22-Sep-2018                  |
| 34     | Pondicherry (UT) | Pondicherry (Underserved Round-1)   | 16-Aug-2017                  |
| 35_    | Punjab           | Adampur(Round-1)                    | 1-Mav-2018                   |
| 36_    |                  | Bhatinda(Round-1)                   | 27-April-2017                |

| S No.   | State         | Airport                           | Date of Operationalisation   |
|---------|---------------|-----------------------------------|------------------------------|
| 37_     |               | Ludhiana(Round-1)                 | 2-Sep-2017                   |
| 38.     |               | Pathankot(Round-1)                | 5-April-2018                 |
| 39      | Rajasthan     | Bikaner(Round-1)                  | 26-Sep-2017                  |
| 40_     |               | Jaisalmer(Round-1)                | 29-Oct-2017                  |
| 41      |               | Kishangarh(Round-2)               | 8-Oct-2018                   |
| 42_     | Sikkim        | Pakyong(Round-2)                  | 4-Oct-2018                   |
| 43_     | Tamil Nadu    | Salem(Round-1)                    | 25-Mar-2018                  |
| 44_     | Uttar Pradesh | Agra (Underserved)(Round-1)       | 8-Dec-2017                   |
| 45_     |               | Allahabad (Underserved)(Round-2)  | 14-June-2O18                 |
| 46_     |               | Kanpur(Chakeri)Round-1)           | 3-July-2018                  |
| 47_     |               | Hindon(Round-2)                   | 11-Oct-2019                  |
| 48_     |               | Bareilly                          | 08-Mar-2021                  |
| 49_     | Uttarakhand   | Pantnagar (Underserved)Round-1)   | 4-Jan-2019                   |
| 50_     |               | Pithoragarh(Round-2)              | 17-Jan-2019                  |
| 51      |               | Sahastradhara Heliport (Round-2)  | 08-Feb-2020                  |
| 52_     |               | Chinyalisaur -Heliport ( Round-2) | 08-Feb-2020                  |
| 53_     |               | Gaucher -Heliport (Round-2)       | 08-Feb-202O                  |
| 54      |               | New Tehri -Heliport (Round-2)     | 29-July-2020                 |
| 55_     |               | Srinagar -Heliport (Round-2)      | 29-July-2020                 |
| 56_     | West Bengal   | Durgapur(Underserved)Round-1)     | 25-June-2019                 |