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Saturday, 19 March 2016

‘India Aviation 2016’: Pranab Mukherjee calls for enhancing infrastructure

While inaugurating the ‘India Aviation 2016’, a mega civil aviation expo and conference, at Begumpet airport, President Pranab Mukherjee today suggested enhancing civil aviation infrastructure by building new greenfield airports to not only cater to “phenomenal” rise in passenger and cargo traffic, but also to connect tier 2 and 3 cities, especially in Northeast.

Mukherjee noted that India still lags behind in terms of per capita air travels when compared to other countries. “It is estimated that India shall require about 800 aircraft by 2020 to cater to the phenomenal increase in air passenger and freight traffic. The supporting aviation infrastructure has to be suitably upgraded by building new greenfield airports, expanding existing airports and upgrading facilities for maintenance, repair and operations,” he said.
Despite rapid growth of civil aviation industry in the country, “several tier 2 and tier 3 cities of India still remain unconnected or are inadequately connected with the national grid”, the President said.
“With the existing economic centres reaching a saturation point, business activities are bound to move to newer destinations. Northeastern states still lack adequate air connectivity due to paucity of civil aviation infrastructure,” he said.
“The deeper the air penetration to smaller cities, better the connectivity to Northeastern part of India,” he said.
The President is on a day-long tour to Hyderabad for the fifth edition of biennial aviation event themed on ‘India’s Civil Aviation Sector: Potential As Global Manufacturing and MRO Hub’.
To Read the News in Full 16/03/16 PTI/Financial Express
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