Giving a push to aviation infrastructure development, government is planning to build 10-15 green field airports and modernising 50 others in the non-metro cities over the next few years.
About 50 non-metro air ports are being modernised within the next two years and overall 10-15 new greenfield airports are being planned, civil aviation minister Ajit Singh told reporters .
Maintaining that the civil aviation sector in India was witnessing an annual growth of nine per cent, he said, “We expect a double digit growth in air traffic in the next few years.“
He said the government had initiated a major process of modernising existing airports and developing greenfield ones through a mixed strategy of public sector, private sector, joint ventures and public-private partnership to accommodate the growing air traffic.
While airports at Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and Hyderabad had been built with private sector participation, new airports are ready for commissioning in Chennai and Kolkata very soon, he said, adding that the government now permits up to 100 per cent FDI in greenfield airports.
Observing that India was a major corridor between the East and the West, Singh said the final operational phase and certification GAGAN (GPS Aided Geo-augmented Navigation) system, developed jointly by AAI and ISRO, was expected to be completed in June 2013.
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