New Delhi: Addressing a press meet in New Delhi, Union Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia said that India will have more than 200 airports within five years. In the detailed announcement, the minister announced a total of 220 airports, including helicopters and water aerodromes, will be built in the country over the next five years.
Scindia further highlighted the developments made by the aviation sector in the last nine years of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government. He also said that what the previous government had done in 68 years, this government has done in just 9 years. The number of airports has increased from 74 to 148. Scindia said that the government has planned to construct 220 airports in India within the next five years.
“There were some states in the northeast region where there were no airports, but today, Arunachal Pradesh has three new airports, and Sikkim also has an airport now,” Scindia said.
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