No disinvestment, we’ve only leased airports: Scindia in Lok Sabha

With civil aviation becoming a key component of India’s development and its economy, the country will have at least 220 airports by 2025, Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said even as he assured the Lok Sabha that the government is not on a “disinvestment path” but has only leased the airports. He said the move has brought additional revenue to the government, besides guaranteeing upgrade of the airports.

Scindia, while replying to an eight-hour debate on the demand for grants for the Civil Aviation Ministry in the Lower House, urged the chief ministers across the country to reduce the VAT on the Aviation Turbine Fuel (ATF) in their respective states, which, he said, would lead to increase in connectivity and the revenue.