These 25 new airports will get privatised by 2025: Check the list

Minister of State for Civil Aviation VK Singh said that the airports had been selected after looking at their annual traffic trends and all airports having annual traffic of above 0.4 million passengers have been selected for privatisation.

Yaruqhullah Khan

December 10, 2021 / 09:14 AM IST

Passengers at Delhi’s IGI airport (File image: PTI)

The Central government plans to privatise a total of 25 airports between 2022 to 2025 under the National Monetization Pipeline, Minister of State for Civil Aviation VK Singh said in a reply in the Lok Sabha on December 9.

As a part of the government's plans for asset monetisation, the 25 airports selected by the government are located in Nagpur, Varanasi, Dehradun, Trichy, Indore, Chennai, Calicut, Coimbatore, Bhubaneshwar, and Patna, the minister said in his response to the lower house.

The government also plans to privatise airports in Madurai, Tirupati, Ranchi, Jodhpur, Raipur, Rajahmundry, Vadodara, Amritsar, Surat, Hubli, Imphal, Agartala, Udaipur, Bhopal, and Vijayawada.

The minister said that the airports had been selected after looking at their annual traffic trends and all airports having annual traffic of above 0.4 million passengers have been selected for privatisation.

Former Airports Authority of India Chairman Guruprasad Mohapatra announced in 2019 that the government planned to privatise 20-25 more airports in the next phase of asset monetisation with an expectation that there will be a significant participation by foreign airports.

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