Lok Sabha Question No. 5025 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2021-03-25
Subject: Requirement of International Airports
Ministry: CIVIL AVIATION
Asked by: Bharti Pravin Pawar

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF CIVIL AVIATION LOK SABHA

UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. ; 5025 (To be answered on the March 2021) 25th

## REQUIREMENT OF INTERNATIONAL AIRPORTS

## 5025. DR BHARATI PRA VIN PAWAR

## Will the Minister of CIVIL AVIATION

be pleased to state: -

- (0) the details of total number of international airports in the country;
2. (c) if so,the number of international airports required in the country with the number of such airports for which the construction plans are being formulated; and along
3. (b) whether it is a fact that these airports are inadequate in view 0f the size 0f the couniry and the increasing number Of air passengers;
4. (d) #hc progress made in this regard s0 far?

## ANSWER

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

(Shri Hardeep Singh Puri)

(a): There are a total of 29 international airports in the country as per details at Annexure.

Government of India has accorded 'in-principle' approval for setting up 7 greenfield airports in the country as international airports namely Mopa in Goa, Navi Mumbai in Maharashtra, Karaikal in Puducherry, Jewar (Noida) in Uttar Pradesh; Dholera and Hirasar in Gujarat and Bhogapuram in Andhra Pradesh. Out of these 7 airports, AAI has undertaken development of two airports namely Hirasar and Dholera at a total project cost of Rs.1405 crore and Rs.1685 crore respectively from its own resources; Financing of the remaining greenfield airport projects is the responsibility of concerned airport developers Further, timeline for completion of the airport projects depends upon many factors such as land acquisition, availability of mandatory clearances, financial closure; etc.

(b) to (d): In order to meet the growing demand; the airport operators including the Airports -Authority %f India (AAT) undertake upgradation/ modernisation 0f airports from time to time depending 0n the availability of land; commercial viability; socio-economic considerations, traffic demand / willingness of airlines to operate tolfrom such airports etc;

## Annexure

| S.No.   | Name of Airport                                   | City               | State UT                  |
|---------|---------------------------------------------------|--------------------|---------------------------|
| 1       | Veer Savarkar International Airport               | Port Blair         | Andaman & Nicobar Islands |
| 2.      | Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport  | Guwahati           | Assam                     |
| 3       | Indira Gandhi International Airport               | Delhi              | Delhi (UT)                |
| 4_      | Goa International Airport                         | Dabolim            | Goa                       |
| 5.      | Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport    | Ahmedabad          | Gujarat                   |
| 6.      | Srinagar International Airport                    | Srinagar           | Jammu & Kashmir (UT)      |
| 7       | Mangaluru International Airport                   | Mangaluru          | Karnataka                 |
| 8_      | Kempegowda International Airport_                 | Bengaluru          | Karnataka                 |
| 9,      | Calicut International Airport                     | Calicut            | Kerala                    |
| 10.     | Trivandrum International Airport                  | Thiruvananthapuram | Kerala                    |
| 11.     | Cochin International Airport                      | Kochi              | Kerala                    |
| 12,     | Kannur International Airport                      | Kannur             | Kerala                    |
| 13,     | Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport | Mumbai             | Maharashtra               |
| 14.     | Dr, Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport      | Nagpur             | Maharashtra               |
| 15,     | Shirdi International Airport                      | Shirdi             | Maharashtra               |
| 16.     | Imphal International Airport_                     | Imphal             | Manipur                   |
| 17.     | Biju Patnaik International Airport                | Bhubaneswar        | Orissa                    |
|         | Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee International Airport       | Amritsar           | Punjab                    |
| 19.     | Jaipur International Airport                      | Jaipur             | Rajasthan                 |
| 20.     | Chennai International Airport                     | Chennai            | Tamil Nadu                |
| 21_     | Tiruchirappalli International Airport_            | Tiruchirapalli     | Tamil Nadu                |
| 22.     | Coimbatore International Airport _                | Coimbatore         | Tamil Nadu                |
| 23.     | Rajiv Gandhi International Airport                | Hyderabad          | Telangana                 |
| 24,     | Vijayawada International Airport                  | Vijayawada         | Andhra Pradesh            |
| 25.     | Tirupati International Airport                    | Tirupati           | Andhra Pradesh            |
|         | Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport      | Lucknow            | Uttar Pradesh             |
| 27 .    | Lal Bahadur Shastri International Airport         | Varanasi           | Uttar Pradesh             |
| 28 .    | Kushinagar International Airport                  | Kushinagar         | Uttar Pradesh             |
| 29      | Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport | Kolkata            | West Bengal               |