Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia was addressing the inauguration ceremony of daily flight between Bhubaneswar and Rourkela under RCS UDAN scheme.
The number of airports in the country has increased by 100 per cent to 148 in a span of eight years from 74 in 2014, Union Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said on Saturday, according to news agency ANI.
He was addressing the inauguration ceremony of daily flight between Bhubaneswar and Rourkela under RCS UDAN scheme.
"Till 2014 there were only 74 airports in the country, today the number has increased to 148 including heliports and water aerodromes, which is a 100 per cent increase in eight years," Scindia said.
The minister further said that as per ANI report, a record was set before the pandemic that 4,20,000 passengers traveled in a day.
He said, "Now that record has been broken and four lakh fifty thousand passengers traveled in a day. In December 2022, more than four lakh passengers traveled on each day of the month."
In an official statement, the Ministry of Civil Aviation said that the flight between Bhubaneswar and Rourkela started from Saturday and will operate seven days a week. It will act as an important link between Bhubaneswar and Rourkela during the upcoming Hockey World Cup.
He also congratulated the residents of both the cities and said that the Indian civil aviation scenario has witnessed phenomenal growth in the last eight years under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Speaking about the upcoming Hockey World Cup to be held in these cities of Odisha, the Minister said that earlier the travel time between Kalinga Stadium Bhubaneswar to Birsa Munda Hockey Stadium Rourkela used to be nine hours which has now been reduced to one hour and ten minutes has gone. through flight.
The inauguration was done in the presence of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, Minister of State for Civil Aviation General Vijay Kumar Singh (Retd), Lok Sabha MP Aparajita Sarangi, and Jual Oram, among others.
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