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Wednesday 18 April 2018

Airports Authority of India hails UDAN scheme for exponential growth

New Delhi: On the sidelines of Airports Authority of India (AAI) annual day function; Chairman Guruprasad Mohapatra said that the recently launched UDAN (Ude Desh ka Aam Naagrik) scheme would help the emerging civil aviation sector in the country to grow exponentially.

The UDAN scheme is a regional connectivity scheme launched by the Central government to make flying a safe, secure and inexpensive and would and thereby making air travel a reality for common people under.

While addressing the AAI family the Chairman said that in the aviation infrastructure front, “several terminal buildings at Gorakhpur, Belgavi, Hubbali, Jammu” were dedicated to the nation including operationalizing of the Central Air Traffic Flow Management (CATFM) in order to balance the demand and supply in the airports.

He added that CAT III B Instrument Landing System (ILS) was introduced at “Amritsar and Kolkata to reduce the difficulties faced by the travelling public due to fog and bad weather conditions but equally came out with flying colours for providing customer excellence to the travelling public”.


Speaking exclusively to ANI during the 23th Annual Day Celebration in  Chairman said, “The way the Indian aviation sector is increasing, we have realised that the incremental changes will not do, we require exponential changes now and that is why we are targeting to start a new ‘terminal building project’ of more than 15000 Crore in this financial year 2018-19”.

Giving an emphasis on regional connectivity Mohapatra mentioned that all the airports under this scheme are ready for operations and new airlines like Air Deccan and Air Odisha are ready to start their connections.

“Our mandate and our desire is that flying becomes safe, secure, comfortable and cheap, we are working towards that,” said Mohapatra.
To Read the News in Full 01/04/18 ANI/New Indian Express
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