Centre aims to make air travel affordable for common man: Jyotiraditya Scindia
The government is making efforts towards expansion of the air services with a view to provide air travel facilities to common people
Union Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia on Wednesday said the central government aimed to make air travel affordable, so that even a person “wearing slippers” could avail.
“We want to provide an affordable air travel facility to the common people. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has time and again said this facility should be such that even a person wearing ‘hawai chappal’ (slippers) can travel by air. We, in India, have the full potential to make it a reality,” the minister said.
Air services to be expanded to provide facilities for common people
As part of the domestic civil aviation sector’s expansion in the past four years, new airports have been opened in many smaller cities and air services have been started on new routes, connecting these places with big cities, Scindia told reporters here in Madhya Pradesh.
He added that the government was making efforts towards expansion of the air services with a view to provide air travel facilities to more and more common people in the coming decade.
Scindia, who was given charge of the civil aviation ministry after his induction into the Modi-led Union cabinet last month, started a three-day ‘Jan Ashirwad Yatra’ from Tuesday in the Malwa and Nimar regions of western MP to reach out to people. His tour will end in Indore on Thursday.
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