Government accords in-Principle approval to set up 21 green field airports across the country

Government accords in-Principle approval to set up 21 green field airports across the country

• Government has accorded in-principle approval to set up 21 green field airports across the country.
• These airports include Mopa in Goa; Navi Mumbai, Sindhudurg and Shirdi in Maharashtra; Bijapur, Hassan, Kalaburagi and Shimoga in Karnataka; Dabra in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh; Kushinagar and Jewar (Noida) in Uttar Pradesh.
• Other states where these airports will come up are Gujarat, Puducherry, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, Sikkim, Kerala and Arunachal Pradesh.
• Eight of these 21 airports have already been operationalized.
• Greenfield Airport is a term used to identify a new airport, built from scratch in a new location. Such airports are constructed to support the projected requirements of traffic of the existing airport.

Published date : 29 Mar 2022 06:19PM