{"id":644143,"date":"2025-08-25T09:18:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T03:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=644143"},"modified":"2025-08-25T12:14:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T06:44:41","slug":"udan-passenger-count-nosedives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/udan-passenger-count-nosedives\/","title":{"rendered":"UDAN passenger count nosedives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The much-hyped journey from Hawai chappal to Hawai Jahaj (rubber slippers to aeroplanes) has hit a massive air pocket. As the government\u2019s regional connectivity scheme \u2013 UDAN (Ude Desh Ka Aam Nagrik) \u2013 completes nine years (it was launched in 2016 though the first flight took off a year later), passenger count has slumped by more than half in FY25 from the peak seen just three years earlier. <\/p>\n<p>A dream that\u2019s losing altitude <\/p>\n<p>Only 1.41 million passengers availed the benefit, a drop of 57% compared to the peak of 3.3 million clocked in FY22, and a 24% drop compared to FY24\u2019s total of 1.87 million. FY25 marked three consecutive years of decline in passenger count for the scheme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The much-hyped journey from Hawai chappal to Hawai Jahaj (rubber slippers to aeroplanes) has hit a massive air pocket. As the government\u2019s regional connectivity scheme \u2013 UDAN (Ude Desh Ka Aam Nagrik) \u2013 completes nine years (it was launched in 2016 though the first flight took off a year later), passenger count has slumped by more than half in FY25 from the peak seen just three years earlier. A dream that\u2019s losing altitude Only 1.41 million passengers availed the benefit, a drop of 57% compared to the peak of 3.3 million clocked in FY22, and a 24% drop compared to [&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":[130,264,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-644143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644143","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=644143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}