The Union government on
June 28 decided to set up 51 new low-cost airports across India including 3 in
Odisha at Brahmapur, Raurkela and Kendujhar. This is aimed at giving a boost to
the civil aviation sector and increase air connectivity to Tier-II and Tier-III
cities. Apart from the low-cost airports, the government has also decided to
grant new international airport status to Bhubaneswar in Odisha.
The state-owned airport
operator, Airports Authority of India (AAI), would set up these low-cost
airports. The decisions were taken at a meeting chaired by the Prime Minister
held in New Delhi to finalize infrastructure projects for 2013-14 which was attended
by Finance Minister P Chidambaram, Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek
Singh Ahluwalia and Ministers of Power, Coal, Railways, Roads, Shipping and
Civil Aviation. Source: PIB
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