India may privatize more of its airports

India plans to privatize more airports as it seeks to accelerate efforts to boost infrastructure development.

A plan to offer additional airports for operations to private firms will be placed before the Union cabinet on Wednesday, civil aviation minister Hardeep Singh Puri said.

“We are going to the cabinet tomorrow with further airport privatization plan. We have got many more airports lined up—dozens of them,” Puri said at a webinar organized by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) on Tuesday. “And the 100 more airports that we will build between now and 2030, I think, will all augur well (for the economy).”