Puri: Aviation Ministry to present proposal on ‘further airport privatisation’ to Cabinet today

The Ministry of Civil Aviation will place a proposal for “further” privatisation of airports before the Union Cabinet on Wednesday, Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on Tuesday.

In the first round of privatisation under the Narendra Modi dispensation, the airports in Lucknow, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Mangaluru, Thiruvananthapuram and Guwahati were cleared for operation, management and development through public-private partnership (PPP) model in February 2019. Subsequently, the Airports Authority of India (AAI) had in September 2019 recommended the Civil Aviation Ministry to privatise airports in Amritsar, Varanasi, Bhubaneswar, Indore, Raipur and Trichy.

Puri said during a webinar on Tuesday: “We are going to the Cabinet tomorrow for further airport privatisation.