{"id":284492,"date":"2019-07-26T05:34:55","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T05:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=284492"},"modified":"2019-07-26T05:51:15","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T05:51:15","slug":"indias-air-passenger-traffic-to-touch-1-billion-in-coming-years-civil-aviation-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indias-air-passenger-traffic-to-touch-1-billion-in-coming-years-civil-aviation-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s air passenger traffic to touch 1 billion in coming years : Civil Aviation Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said that India\u2019s civil aviation sector is experiencing dynamic growth and air passenger traffic on an annual basis is expected to touch 1 billion in the coming years.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the civil aviation minister told Lok Sabha that the government had taken a decision to privatise six airports, including at Lucknow and Ahmedabad.<\/p>\n<p>Out of the six, three have been awarded to Adani group and issues related to two others have been resolved, he said during the Question Hour.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, the government decided to lease out airports at Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Lucknow, Guwahati, Mangaluru and Thiruvanathapuram.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said that India\u2019s civil aviation sector is experiencing dynamic growth and air passenger traffic on an annual basis is expected to touch 1 billion in the coming years. On Thursday, the civil aviation minister told Lok Sabha that the government had taken a decision to privatise six airports, including at Lucknow and Ahmedabad. Out of the six, three have been awarded to Adani group and issues related to two others have been resolved, he said during the Question Hour. In 2018, the government decided to lease out airports at Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Lucknow, Guwahati, Mangaluru [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}