Jyotiraditya Scindia

In recent weeks, the Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) in the national capital has been grappling with congestion, resulting in long waiting hours for passengers and many of them have been complaining about the situation on social media.

After the Tata group took over the loss-making Air India in January this year, the airline has been working on expanding its services and fleet.

Replying to a question in the Lok Sabha, Jyotiraditya Scindia said India has tremendous connectivity between Tier I-II cities.

The minister added that all agencies have swung into action in the last 24-36 hours to mitigate congestion at all major airports.

The minister highlighted that India has a very effective international to domestic air connectivity and also domestic tier I to tier II cities.

Jyotiraditya Scindia, along with senior ministry officials, visited Terminal 3 of the airport amid complaints from passengers about long queues and waiting hours in recent days.

Speaking in the Lok Sabha, Scindia also said a new site, Parandur, has been chosen for Chennai's second airport -- a greenfield one -- out of the four sites offered by the Tamil Nadu government.

Jyotiraditya Scindia also said in the Lok Sabha that the increase in traffic is due to the 'resurgence of traffic' and also partly because of the 'democratisation of civil aviation' and expansion of the network across the country.

Ramesh was speaking on the sidelines of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's Bharat Jodo Yatra which reached Agar Malwa in MP.

The government on Thursday launched DigiYatra, which is based on facial recognition technology for air passengers, at Delhi, Bangalore and Varanasi airports.

With DigiYatra, it will be paperless entry for passengers at airports and the passenger data can be automatically processed based on a facial recognition system at various checkpoints, including at security check areas.

This is the first flight from Donyi Polo Airport at Hollongi, Itanagar in Arunachal Pradesh.

Jyotiraditya Scindia said the aviation industry has received a boost with added infrastructure, pointing out that more regional and last-mile connecting flights have been started, especially linking the northeast region of the country.

The mission is part of the government's efforts to reduce dependence on imports for coking coal and increase use of locally available coal in the steel making through gasification process, the steel minister told PTI in an interview.

The government has cut the export duty on steel products and iron ore to nil with effect from November 19, 2022 -- six months after imposition of the levy on May 21.

The minister said recycling is something that is not only the need of the hour but also imperative.

In a tweet, the minister said he got tested for coronavirus on the advice of doctors and the report has come positive.

The minister also announced that under International UDAN, two new routes of Agartala-Chittagong-Agartala and Imphal-Mandalay-Imphal will be operationalised.

The minister added that the government has seen exceptional demand on the three special corridors launched last year in India.

Minister of Civil Aviation Jyotiraditya Scindia launched a Helicopter emergency medical service from AIIMS Rishikesh dubbed Project Sanjeevani while speaking at the India-Heli Summit in Srinagar.