{"id":284638,"date":"2019-07-26T11:36:22","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T11:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=284638"},"modified":"2019-07-26T11:36:22","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T11:36:22","slug":"modi-government-may-lease-out-10-airports-including-varanasi-patna-amritsar-under-ppp-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/modi-government-may-lease-out-10-airports-including-varanasi-patna-amritsar-under-ppp-model\/","title":{"rendered":"Modi government may lease out 10 airports including Varanasi, Patna, Amritsar under PPP model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Buoyed by high investor interest in privatisation of six airports recently, the civil aviation ministry could lease out a total of 10 airports, which include the ones at Varanasi, Calicut, Patna, Amritsar and Bhubaneswar, among others, under the public-private partnership (PPP) model later this year. Airports at Ranchi, Coimbatore, Trichy, Indore and Raipur are also on this list.<\/p>\n<p>These facilities are currently managed by state-owned Airports Authority of India (AAI), and witnessed traffic of 1.57-4.15 million passengers in FY19. Unlike the last round, the probable list for privatisation includes loss-making airports like Indore and Raipur.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry had bid out profit-making airports at Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Lucknow, Trivandrum, Guwahati and Mangalore in February 2019 on the basis of highest per-passenger fee (PPF) offered to the AAI. The bidders got rights to operate, manage and develop airports for a period of 50 years. The PPF criteria is likely to continue as the bid parameter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buoyed by high investor interest in privatisation of six airports recently, the civil aviation ministry could lease out a total of 10 airports, which include the ones at Varanasi, Calicut, Patna, Amritsar and Bhubaneswar, among others, under the public-private partnership (PPP) model later this year. Airports at Ranchi, Coimbatore, Trichy, Indore and Raipur are also on this list. These facilities are currently managed by state-owned Airports Authority of India (AAI), and witnessed traffic of 1.57-4.15 million passengers in FY19. Unlike the last round, the probable list for privatisation includes loss-making airports like Indore and Raipur. The ministry had bid out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284638","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}