World-Class Facilities At Indian Airports

The Minister of State for Civil Aviation, Shri G.M. Siddeswara informed the Lok Sabha today that the following airports in India are having world-class facilities / world-class terminal buildings: New Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Cochin, Kolkata, Chennai, Port Blair, Guwahati, Dibrugarh,Vishakhapatnam, Chandigarh, Raipur, Goa, Ahmedabad, Surat, Srinagar, Ranchi, Mangalore, Mysore, Trivandrum, Calicut, Bhopal, Indore, Aurangabad, Nagpur, Pune, Imphal, Bhubaneshwar, Amritsar, Jaipur, Udaipur, Madurai, Trichy, Coimbatore, Agartala, Dehradun, Agra,Lucknow and Varanasi.

The upgradation or modernisation of airports is a continuous process and are taken up in a phased manner depending on various factors like availability of land free from all encumbrances, traffic demand and commercial viability and other socio-economic considerations. The construction of New Terminal Buildings at Tirupathi and Chandigarh (Mohali) and expansion of Terminal Building at Jammu has been taken up. Airports Authority of India (AAI) has further plans to construct new Terminal Buildings at Port Blair, Hubli, Belgaum and Agartala.

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