New Delhi: The government is working on a new civil aviation policy which seeks to provide connectivity to the smaller cities even as domestic air traffic has been on a growth path in the last one year, President Pranab Mukherjee said on Tuesday.
"The government is working on a new Civil Aviation Policy with thrust on connectivity to small cities," he said in his address to the joint sitting of Parliament.
The President said domestic air traffic has also registered substantial growth during the year.
The Civil Aviation Ministry had last October unveiled an elaborate and revised draft National Civil Aviation Policy and stakeholders were given time till November 30 to give their feedback and suggestions.
In the draft policy, the ministry had proposed a raft of measures to bolster regional air connectivity, including levying of additional cess and providing viability gap funding.
The draft policy focuses on boosting regional connectivity apart from proposals for various tax sops and over 50% FDI for Indian carriers.
It also moots setting up of no-frills airports and providing viability gap funding for airlines to enhance regional connectivity and talks about reviewing the decade-old 5/20 norm for international flying by domestic airlines, which allows only those Indian carriers to fly abroad who have completed five years of operations on local routes and have a minimum of 20 aircraft in their fleet.
To Read the News in Full 23/02/16 PTI/Daily News & Analysis
"The government is working on a new Civil Aviation Policy with thrust on connectivity to small cities," he said in his address to the joint sitting of Parliament.
The President said domestic air traffic has also registered substantial growth during the year.
The Civil Aviation Ministry had last October unveiled an elaborate and revised draft National Civil Aviation Policy and stakeholders were given time till November 30 to give their feedback and suggestions.
In the draft policy, the ministry had proposed a raft of measures to bolster regional air connectivity, including levying of additional cess and providing viability gap funding.
The draft policy focuses on boosting regional connectivity apart from proposals for various tax sops and over 50% FDI for Indian carriers.
It also moots setting up of no-frills airports and providing viability gap funding for airlines to enhance regional connectivity and talks about reviewing the decade-old 5/20 norm for international flying by domestic airlines, which allows only those Indian carriers to fly abroad who have completed five years of operations on local routes and have a minimum of 20 aircraft in their fleet.
To Read the News in Full 23/02/16 PTI/Daily News & Analysis
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