{"id":335422,"date":"2020-02-03T12:25:14","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T06:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=335422"},"modified":"2020-02-03T12:53:38","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T07:23:38","slug":"100-udan-airports-to-boost-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/100-udan-airports-to-boost-tourism\/","title":{"rendered":"100 UDAN airports to boost tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Government\u2019s decision to develop 100 more airports under the UDAN scheme by 2024 will get a boost only if exclusive landing slots are provided by regional airlines.<\/p>\n<p>Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said in the Budget that development of 100 airports will promote domestic travel and connect more towns.<\/p>\n<p>But analysts told BusinessLine that the government should include all the stakeholders while putting this scheme into practice. \u201cThe Government should be able to allocate a specific budget for setting up each of these airports and prevail upon airports in major metros to set up secondary airports closer to the main ones,\u201d Capt AK Sachdev, former Chief Operating Officer, GoAir told BusinessLine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Government\u2019s decision to develop 100 more airports under the UDAN scheme by 2024 will get a boost only if exclusive landing slots are provided by regional airlines. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said in the Budget that development of 100 airports will promote domestic travel and connect more towns. But analysts told BusinessLine that the government should include all the stakeholders while putting this scheme into practice. \u201cThe Government should be able to allocate a specific budget for setting up each of these airports and prevail upon airports in major metros to set up secondary airports closer to the main [&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-335422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335422","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=335422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}