New Delhi, 13 December (HS). Union Civil Aviation Minister K. Rammohan Naidu said on Friday that India’s aviation sector has seen rapid growth in the last 10 years. He said that now the government aims to make the country a top domestic aviation hub. Naidu said the central government will start affordable ‘flying passenger cafes’ at airports.
Aviation Minister Kinjarapu Rammohan Naidu said this today while addressing the centenary celebrations of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport in Kolkata.
Presenting the logo for the centenary celebrations at Rajiv Gandhi Bhawan on completion of 100 years of the airport, he said that the last 10 years have been glorious for the civil aviation sector. Naidu said that many airports have expanded during this period. There has been a huge increase in the number of passengers. Our aim now should be to become the number one domestic hub globally.
Ram Mohan Naidu said, “Under the leadership of the Prime Minister, we have now become the third largest domestic civil aviation hub in the entire world and we now have to take it further.” “We have to break barriers once again,” he said. The civil aviation sector in the country has to be uplifted and it has to become the number one domestic hub in the entire world.” Describing the UDAN (Ude Desh ka Aam Nagrik) scheme as revolutionary, he said that under this initiative, crores of people have traveled by air through more than 600 flights in the last eight years. Secretary of the Ministry of Civil Aviation Vumlunmang Wualnam, President of AAI Vipin Kumar, senior officials of the Ministry of Civil Aviation and Airports Authority of India were also present in the event.