Durgapur Airport the latest entrant on the map of RCS UDAN – Functional routes under UDAN rises to 186

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Functional routes under UDAN rises to 186

Durgapur Airport the latest entrant on the map of RCS UDAN

By PIB Delhi

12  routes under the Regional Connectivity Scheme (or UdeDesh ka AamNaagrik /UDAN in Hindi) have recently become functional.  This takes the total operational routes under UDAN to 186 (including 8 Tourism RCS routes) of the total 706 sanctioned Routes. Also, Durgapur airport is the 40th airport to become functional under the scheme.

            The 12 routes with daily flight operations that commenced are:

  1. Kolkata(WB)- Allahabad(UP)
  2. Allahabad(UP)- Kolkata(WB)          
  3. Allahabad(UP)-Raipur(CG)
  4. Raipur(CG)-Allahabad(UP)
  5. Gwalior(MP)- Bangalore(KA)
  6. Bangalore(KA)-Gwalior(MP)
  7. Kolkata(WB) -Gwalior(MP)
  8. Gwalior(MP)- Kolkata(WB)            
  9. Mumbai (MH) – Belgaum(KA)
  10. Belgaum(KA)-Mumbai (MH)
  11.  Mumbai (MH)- Durgapur(WB)
  12.  Durgapur(WB)-Mumbai (MH)

The Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) launched Regional Connectivity Scheme (RCS) – UdeDesh ka AamNagrik (UDAN) on 21.10.2016 to stimulate regional air connectivity and making air travel affordable to the masses.  Since then 3 (Three) Round of biddings have been completed. The first RCS-UDAN flight was launched by Hon’ble Prime Minister on 27th April, 2017 at Shimla. 106 RCS Airports / Water aerodromes (76 Unserved, 20 Underserved & 10 Waterdromes) and 31 heliports have been identified for commencement of RCS flight connecting small cities in India.  706 RCS routes including 46 Tourism RCS routes have been awarded to 19 selected Airline operators under UDAN. RCS flights commenced from 40 RCS (23 Unserved & 17 Underserved) Airports and Durgapur is the latest airport on the map of  RCS UDAN .

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Antara Tripathy M.Sc., B.Ed. by qualification and bring 15 years of media reporting experience.. Coverred many illustarted events like, G20, ICC,MCCI,British High Commission, Bangladesh etc. She took over from the founder Editor of IBG NEWS Suman Munshi (15/Mar/2012- 09/Aug/2018 and October 2020 to 13 June 2023).
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