Union Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said that 200-220 more airports, heliports and water aerodromes would be built in the country in the next five years. The Union minister was addressing media persons in the national capital, highlighting the work done by the aviation sector in the last nine years of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Scindia said, “Whatever governments have done in the last 68 years, the Modi government has done in the last 9 years. This number has gone up from 74 to 148. We aim to make 200-220 in the next five years, including heliports.” Are.” and water airport”.
He said that eight airports have been built in the northeastern part of the country. “There were some states in the region where there was no airport, but today Arunachal Pradesh has three new airports, Sikkim also has one now,” Scindia said.
Talking on the metro capacity, the minister said, “We currently have six big metros (Bombay, Delhi, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Chennai and Kolkata). The capacity of these metros is 22 crores. aims at.” including Jewar and Navi Mumbai in the next eight years”.
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Praising the government, Scindia said, “Be it the COVID-19 pandemic or ‘Operation Ganga’ (run to bring back Indian students stranded in Ukraine during the Russo-Ukraine war), the Ministry of Civil Aviation had a major role to play in our Play a role in bringing the citizens back to India.”
Scindia’s press conference on the completion of nine years of the Modi government took place under the ‘Mega Public-Relationship Campaign’, in which the ministers of the Bharatiya Janata Party will visit the capitals of every state and show the report card of the work done in the state. last nine years.