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UDAN Scheme: Boosting Regional Connectivity

UDAN-RCS supports and benefits from other key Indian government schemes by connecting regional airports and increasing air travel on domestic routes. It aims to operationalize 100 regional airports by 2019 with 1.3 million annual passenger seats through subsidized regional flight routes. Multiple state governments have signed agreements to jointly fund the program with the national government.

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UDAN Scheme: Boosting Regional Connectivity

UDAN-RCS supports and benefits from other key Indian government schemes by connecting regional airports and increasing air travel on domestic routes. It aims to operationalize 100 regional airports by 2019 with 1.3 million annual passenger seats through subsidized regional flight routes. Multiple state governments have signed agreements to jointly fund the program with the national government.

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UDAN-RCS is both enabler and beneficiary of other key Government of

India schemes, such as Bharatmala, Sagarmala, Dedicated Freight


Corridors, Industrial corridor, BharatNet, Digital India and Make in
India, National e-Governance Plan, Startup India and Standup India.

The UDAN Scheme is a key component of the Prime Narendra


Modi's National Civil Aviation Policy (NCAP) which was released by
the Ministry of Civil Aviation (India) on 15 June 2016.[17] The scheme will be
jointly funded by the central government and state governments, several
states have come on board by signing the "Memorandum of
Understanding" with the union government for this scheme. [8] UDAN RCS
will connect an unspecified number of new regional routes, by
operationalising 100 regional airports by the end of 2018-2019 financial
year, with a target of 13 lakh (1.3 million) annual passenger seats, requiring
annual INR200 crore Viability Gap Funding (VGF). [18] The frequency of
flights must be minimum 3 and maximum 7 per week from the same airport.
[19]

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