NextGen Airports To Boost Airport Capacity In India

The Indian Government has announced a scheme to expand the airport capacity, more than five times. It is done to handle a billion trips a year under a new scheme called NextGen Airports for Bharat (NABH) Nirman.

As per this scheme, investments have to be made for airport upgrade process by the private sector and the state-owned Airports Authority of India, in the due course of time.

Arun Jaitley (Finance minister) announced that “We propose to expand our airport capacity more than five times to handle a billion trips a year under a new initiative – NABH Nirman.”

This scheme was firstly reported in the month of November. It includes an estimated investment of Rs 4 Lakh Crore to establish about 100 airports in 15 years. The private sector will do the large percentage of the investment for the same.

Guruprasad Mohapatra (AAI chairman) stated that increased infrastructure spends in the airport sector is the need of the hour. Hence, a substantial funding is expected from the private sector.

He added; there is a need to add airport infrastructure with the growth in aviation. For 2019 fiscal, we already have plans to double our outlay on airport infrastructure to RS 4,100 crore. Along with that, we have plans to invest Rs 25,000 crore in airport infrastructure over a period of next three to four years.

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