{"id":56441,"date":"2016-02-29T11:04:16","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T11:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=56441"},"modified":"2016-02-29T11:04:16","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T11:04:16","slug":"budget-2016-will-develop-160-non-functional-airports-says-fm-arun-jaitley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/budget-2016-will-develop-160-non-functional-airports-says-fm-arun-jaitley\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget 2016: Will develop 160 non-functional airports, says FM Arun Jaitley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a big push towards achieving regional air connectivity, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today announced to develop 160 non-functional airports across the country. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In civil aviation, 160 non-functional airports to be developed at a cost of Rs 50-100 crore each and 10 of 25 defunct airstrips to be developed in partnership with state government,&#8221; Finance minister Arun Jaitley announced in the Lok Sabha today. <\/p>\n<p>The development will be part of the low-cost airport plan, where the government intends to develop airport with minimal frills to keep the cost of flying low. <\/p>\n<p>The low cost of flying would help improve regional connectivity and help the government achieve the government&#8217;s scheme to regional flying at a cost of Rs 2,500 per hour flight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a big push towards achieving regional air connectivity, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today announced to develop 160 non-functional airports across the country. &#8220;In civil aviation, 160 non-functional airports to be developed at a cost of Rs 50-100 crore each and 10 of 25 defunct airstrips to be developed in partnership with state government,&#8221; Finance minister Arun Jaitley announced in the Lok Sabha today. The development will be part of the low-cost airport plan, where the government intends to develop airport with minimal frills to keep the cost of flying low. The low cost of flying would help improve regional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-56441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56441","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}