{"id":563746,"date":"2023-03-20T10:42:34","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T05:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=563746"},"modified":"2023-03-20T11:42:21","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T06:12:21","slug":"number-of-air-passengers-benefitting-from-rcs-udan-falls-in-2022-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/number-of-air-passengers-benefitting-from-rcs-udan-falls-in-2022-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Number of air-passengers benefitting from RCS-UDAN falls in 2022-23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Number of air-passengers benefitting from the government&#8217;s Regional Connectivity Scheme (RCS) has come down in 2022-23.<\/p>\n<p>A Parliamentary standing Committee took note of the dwindling numbers and has sought an explanation from the Ministry.<\/p>\n<p>In its latest report, the Committee noted that there has been a fluctuation in the number of RCS passengers who have benefitted from the UDAN Scheme. While the number of RCS passengers rose from 3 lakh (2017-18), to 12 lakh (2018-19), to 31 lakh (2019-20) after the initiation of the Scheme in 2016, it dipped to 15 lakh in 2020-21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Number of air-passengers benefitting from the government&#8217;s Regional Connectivity Scheme (RCS) has come down in 2022-23. A Parliamentary standing Committee took note of the dwindling numbers and has sought an explanation from the Ministry. In its latest report, the Committee noted that there has been a fluctuation in the number of RCS passengers who have benefitted from the UDAN Scheme. While the number of RCS passengers rose from 3 lakh (2017-18), to 12 lakh (2018-19), to 31 lakh (2019-20) after the initiation of the Scheme in 2016, it dipped to 15 lakh in 2020-21.<\/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":[212,130,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-563746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563746","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=563746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}