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Jyotiraditya Scindia, Union Minister of Civil Aviation, has said, “115 AAI airports will be carbon neutral by 2024-2025 including upcoming 6 more airports (Jaipur, Lucknow, Trivandrum, Guwahati, Ahmedabad and Mangalore). Airlines must take voluntary measures.”

Jyotiraditya Scindia, Union Minister of Civil Aviation, in a press conference recently, has said that 13 routes were proposed in the International UDAN Scheme, of which 4 have been awarded viz: Guwahati-Dhaka, Guwahati-Bangkok, Imphal-Mandalay and Agartala-Chittagong.

Jyotiraditya Scindia, Union Civil Aviation Minister, met with airline and airport operators to deliberate on a roadmap for infra and processes to cater to record growth projections for air passenger numbers. “With a whole of govt approach, we are committed to facilitate better processing.”

Speaking at the CAPA India Aviation Summit, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Union Minister of Civil Aviation, has said that the average daily domestic aviation passenger is set to surpass the earlier peak of 4,56,000 by October 2023. “Currently, India experiencing daily domestic aviation passengers of around 420,000 – 440,000”, he said.

Jyotiraditya Scindia, Union Minister of Civil Aviation, has said that they have awarded as 61 routes under the tourism UDAN scheme, of which 43 routes are operational as of today.

Jyotiraditya Scindia, Minister of Civil Aviation, has said that tourism and civil aviation are two sides of the same coin. “These two sectors are conjoined twins in terms of seeing development of each other’s sector,” he claimed.

Jyotiraditya Scindia, Union Minister of Civil Aviation, has said that there were only 74 airports in the country till 2014, today this number including heliports and water aerodromes has increased to 148 which is a 100 per cent increase in eight years.

In a recent tweet, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Union Minister of Civil Aviation, has shared that within 9 days, Delhi Airport has installed 5 x-ray machines at the security-check area, taking the total to 18 ATRS/x-ray machines, which is a major reason behind ease in congestion at T3.

Jyotiraditya Scindia, Union Minister of Civil Aviation has said that India government plans to develop/operationalise 220 airports in the next five years. “Seventy-four airports were functional in the country till 2014. At present there are 141 operational airports including 8 heliports and 2 water aerodromes,” he informed.

Jyotiraditya Scindia met Roger Cook, Deputy Premier of Western Australia & Minister of Trade, State Development & Tourism, along with the Australian delegation. “We discussed furthering direct flight connectivity btw the two countries. Also, glad to learn about our shared interest in infusing environmental sustainability in the aviation & steel production sectors,” he shared in a tweet.