Budget 2020: Aims at improving connectivity through regional flights, airports
NEW DELHI: The Union Budget aims to improve regional air connectivity in the country with announcements on building 100 airports for regional flights and launch of airlines for farmers under the regional connectivity scheme.
In the Budget speech, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced that the aviation ministry would launch a flight scheme to help farmers ferry their produce on flights.
“KrishiUdaan will be launched by the Ministry of Civil Aviation on international and national routes. This will immensely help improve value realisation especially in North-East and tribal districts,” Sitharaman announced in the Budget today.
This scheme of subsidised international and domestic flights will be an extension of the Ude Desh ke Aam Nagrik (UDAN) scheme that entails providing subsidised flights for Rs 2,500 per hour of flight.
