Kolkata: India has the potential to reach the top position in air travel within a decade, civil avidious minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said on Wednesday, underlining the government’s commitment to encourage the sunrise sector to scale the height of the sunrise.
The government, he said, is committed to increasing connectivity on the International Haul regional route and the length, and has set targets for an increase in the number of airports to 220 to 2025 of the 136 today.
“We have jumped from 74 airports in the last 70 years to 62 (more) airports in the past seven years.
Now we have 136 airports.
But it’s not the place we will stop.
We have a total of 220 airports in 2025, and it includes heliports And the water port.
Tasks before we are giant.
Tomorrow we will launch the Jewar Airport (near Noida).
“If you see what we can achieve in the last 5-6.
years from 2014-2019 ….
growth connectivity, civil aviation only (grow) 89 percent, and who helped us jump from seventh position in terms of travel numbers to positions that are almost fourth in 2019.
And your mind, we will Jump to number one in the upcoming decade or more, “The Union Minister said the Virtual Session of the Indian Chamber of Commerce (ICC).
It has produced a new market that opens for connectivity and travel, he said, adding a lot of growth in the civil aviation sector will now be driven by Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities as Tier-1 City have achieved their maturity.
The minister said most metropolitan cities needed the second airport.
“I look forward to the location for the second airport in Kolkata.
Our metro airport almost exploded in stitches …
I think we need to see new airports in all metro.
We have been in the process of A second airport in Delhi and Mumbai.
We also need to do that in other cities including Kolkata, “he said.” We have set a strong target for the next 100 days …
from placing the foundation stone or inaugurates five new airports, six new Helipors and 50 new routes Udan In December or more.
Collecting the last miles connectivity is our target.
I think it’s fundamental and the key to the growth of civil aviation, “he said.
The minister said connectivity is not only about bringing close and emerging people.” Two paradigms have changed …
from globalization to hyper localization, and achieving your goals in the shortest possible time.
Connectivity has become a driver of growth.
Civil flights are in the sunrise phase, “said.
Scindia said this sector would see great growth, at least in the next two decades that could be estimated.
However, it can be achieved only if all stakeholders work simultaneously, he said, urging the private sector and the state government The part too, to join the effort.
He underlined the need to take advantage of the potential of civil helicopter space.
“The helicopter room was truly untapped in India.
It surprised me that India only had 280 (registered and operational) helicopters (registered and operational), where 181 was in a non-schedule compared to thousands of helicopters in Brazilian countries, Russia, China.
In recent months, we have come with a new helicopter policy, “he said.