(a) whether the Government has a proposal to set up any
international airports during Eleventh Five Year Plan;
(b) if so, the sites selected where these international
airports are proposed to be set up; and
(c) the stages at which these proposals are pending?
MINISTER OF THE STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) IN THE MINISTRY OF CIVIL AVIATION (SHRI PRAFUL PATEL)
(a), (b) & (c) Government does not have any plan to set up
any new international airport in the 11th Plan by itself or
through Airports Authority of India (AAI). However, it would
like to promote such airports in Public Private Partnership
(PPP), Private Sector and State Sector. Two such airports at
Bangalore and Hyderabad are getting commissioned early next
year. In principle approvals for international airports at
Mopa (Goa) and Navi Mumbai (Maharashtra) in PPP have been
accorded.