13 more airports to be privatised; 7 small airports to be clubbed with 6 big ones for this PPP round
NEW DELHI: Days after the government announced its ambitious asset monetisation plan, the Airports Authority of India (AAI) on Thursday approved the privatisation of 13 more airports by next year — six major ones and seven smaller ones that will be clubbed with the bigger ones.
The six big airports are: Amritsar, Bhubaneshwar, Indore, Raipur, Trichy and Varanasi. Seven smaller ones, that will be clubbed with the big ones, are those at Hubli, Tirupati, Aurangabad, Jabalpur, Kangra, Kushinagar and Gaya.
The government expects private investment of about Rs 3,700 crore in airport by March 2024.
