{"id":651379,"date":"2025-11-05T09:57:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T04:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=651379"},"modified":"2025-11-05T11:09:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T05:39:54","slug":"11-airports-grounded-poser-on-centres-udan-scheme-to-boost-regional-connectivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/11-airports-grounded-poser-on-centres-udan-scheme-to-boost-regional-connectivity\/","title":{"rendered":"11 airports grounded, poser on Centre&#8217;s UDAN scheme to boost regional connectivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eleven airports launched by the Centre under the UDAN scheme over the past decade \u2014 seven of them in Uttar Pradesh \u2014 have fallen silent because of various operational issues, low turnout, airline disinterest and technical hurdles.<\/p>\n<p>The Regional Connectivity Scheme (RCS)-UDAN (Ude Desh ka Aam Nagrik) was launched by the Narendra Modi government on October 21, 2016, with the vision of making air travel affordable for common people by providing flight services in small cities at subsidised rates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eleven airports launched by the Centre under the UDAN scheme over the past decade \u2014 seven of them in Uttar Pradesh \u2014 have fallen silent because of various operational issues, low turnout, airline disinterest and technical hurdles. The Regional Connectivity Scheme (RCS)-UDAN (Ude Desh ka Aam Nagrik) was launched by the Narendra Modi government on October 21, 2016, with the vision of making air travel affordable for common people by providing flight services in small cities at subsidised rates.<\/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":[216,130,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651379","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=651379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}