States across the country will be the beneficiaries of the expanding aviation sector, and should consequently not look it through a centre versus state prism, Union minister Suresh Prabhu on Thursday said. “States will be the biggest beneficiaries (of expanding aviation sector). So we should not look at it as you against us. Because we (centre) can say this is your problem,” the Civil Aviation minister said at “Wings 2019”, a conference organised by his ministry and FICCI.
Noting that both the Centre and state should have a common platform for expanding aviation sector, he said every problem of the sector is “our” problem “because when people vote for the central government or state government, the voters are the same, it is just that they choose different governments”. He said, “Aviation is a subject where you can not make the mission possible for letting everyone fly, unless we can make state governments part of this process. They will be partners in progress. They should be beneficiary in progress. They should be drivers of this progress.”
