Lok Sabha Question No. 2564 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2022-12-22
Subject: Allocation of Funds under RCS
Ministry: CIVIL AVIATION
Asked by: Ashok Kumar Rawat

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF CIVIL AVIATION

Lok Sabha

UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. : 2564

( TO BE ANSWERED ON THE  22nd December 2022 )

## ALLOCATION OF FUNDS UNDER RCS

2564.    SHRI ASHOK KUMAR RAWAT

Will the Minister of CIVIL AVIATION

## ANSWER

Minister of State in the Ministry of CIVIL AVIATION      (GEN. (DR) V. K. SINGH (RETD))

- (a) to (c): Ministry of Civil Aviation has launched Regional Connectivity Scheme  (RCS)-  UDAN  (Ude  Desh  ka  Aam  Nagrik)  on  21.10.2016  to enhance regional air connectivity across the country from unserved and underserved airports and making air travel affordable to the masses.

UDAN  is  a  market  driven  and  a  self-financing  scheme.  Interested airlines  based  on  their  assessment  of  demand  on  particular  routes, submit their proposals at the time of bidding under UDAN. Under the UDAN  scheme  connectivity  is  enhanced  by  reviving  unserved  and underserved airports and by giving financial (Viability Gap Funding or VGF)  support  to  meet  the  gap,  if  any,  between  the  cost  of  airline operations  and  expected  revenues  on  such  UDAN  routes.  Airports Authority of India, the Implementing Agency makes payment of VGF to the Selected Airlines Operators (SAOs) from Regional Air Connectivity be pleased to state:-

- (a) whether the Airports Authority of India (AAI) has allocated funds to the private airlines through the Regional Air Connectivity Fund Trust during the last three years;
- (b)  if  so,  the  details  thereof  including  funds  allocated  to  the  private airlines during the said period, sector-wise; and
- (c)  the  details  of  the  funds  spent  by  these  airlines  as  on  date,
- sector/item/date-wise?

Fund (RACF) for the operation of UDAN flights as per the provisions of Scheme Document. State Governments provide 20% share towards VGF for UDAN flights pertaining to their states. However, the share of VGF for North-Eastern states and the Union Territories is 10%. ; The detail of airline-wise amount disbursed from the RACF from F.Y.s 2019-20 to 2021-22 is Annexed.

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## ANNEXURE ANNEXURE IN REPLY TO LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2564

## FOR ANSWER ON 22.12.2022

## Disbursement of VGF to SAOs (Year-wise)

## Amount in Crores

|   Sr. No. | Airline                                       |   2019- 20 |   2020-21 |   2021-22 |
|-----------|-----------------------------------------------|------------|-----------|-----------|
|         1 | Airline Allied Services Ltd.                  |     197.5  |    118.6  |    167.42 |
|         2 | Turbo Megha Airways Pvt. Ltd.                 |     152.16 |     67.32 |     45.23 |
|         3 | Zesux Air Service Pvt. Ltd.                   |       1.21 |      0.23 |      0    |
|         4 | Interglobe Aviation Ltd. (INDIGO)             |     124.87 |     46.31 |    207.06 |
|         5 | Deccan Charters Pvt. Ltd.                     |       3.91 |      0.04 |      0    |
|         6 | SpiceJet Limited                              |     169.82 |     56.58 |    101.87 |
|         7 | Ghodawat Enterprises Pvt. Ltd.                |      21.35 |     28.87 |     65.81 |
|         8 | Air Odisha Aviation Pvt. Ltd.                 |       0    |      0    |      0    |
|         9 | Pawan Hans Ltd.                               |       7.79 |      5.65 |      4.59 |
|        10 | Heritage Aviation Pvt. Ltd.                   |       1.71 |      1.69 |      3.81 |
|        11 | Aviation Connectivity and Inf. Dev. Pvt. Ltd. |       0    |      0.31 |      0.34 |
|        12 | Big Charters Pvt. Ltd. (Fly Big)              |       0    |      0    |     29.81 |