UDAN SCHEME Aviation ministry to pitch for four fold increase in FY23 budgetary allocation: Report
New Delhi/IBNS: The Ministry of Civil Aviation and the Airports Authority of India expect 2022-23 to be a big year for the industry and estimate they will need a budgetary allocation of Rs 2,500 crore under the UDAN regional connectivity scheme in 2022-23, according to a Money Control report.
In the Budget for 2021-22, the UDAN scheme had been allocated Rs 600 crore which was 14.28 percent less than the budget allocated in 2020-21.
“The government is pushing to complete its target of achieving connectivity to 100 airports under the UDAN (Ude Desh Ka Aam Naagrik) scheme, and hence more funds will be required to operate flights,” a senior AAI official was quoted as saying by Money Control.
From more than 800 domestic routes awarded to various operators since March 2017, to connect about 60 airports across the country under the UDAN scheme, only 419 of the routes have turned operational.
Under the fourth phase of the UDAN scheme, AAI has now bid out routes and the ministry and AAI expect regional routes to bounce back in 2022-23 as the pandemic is controlled effectively.
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