25 Airports Authority of India (AAI) airports have been earmarked for leasing over the years 2022 to 2025 as per the National Monetisation Pipeline (NMP). The AAI has leased out eight of its airports under Public Private Partnership (PPP) for operation, management and development on long term lease basis.
The 25 airports that have been set aside for leasing are – Bhubaneshwar, Varanasi, Amritsar, Trichy, Indore, Raipur, Calicut, Coimbatore, Nagpur, Patna, Madurai, Surat, Ranchi, Jodhpur, Chennai, Vijayawada, Vadodara, Bhopal, Tirupati, Hubli, Imphal, Agartala, Udaipur, Dehradun and Rajahmundry.
Minister of State in the Ministry of Civil Aviation Gen. (Dr) VK Singh (Retd) in a written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha on Monday also shared the details of 8 AAI’s airports leased under PPP along with the concessionaires:
(1) Indira Gandhi International Airport, Delhi – M/s Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL)
(2) Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport, Mumbai – M/s Mumbai International Airport Limited (MIAL)
(3) Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport, Lucknow – M/s Lucknow International Airport Limited (LIAL)
(4) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport, Ahmedabad – M/s Ahmedabad International Airport Limited (AIAL)
(5) Mangaluru International Airport – M/s Mangaluru International Airport Limited (MaIAL)
(6) Jaipur International Airport – M/s Jaipur International Airport Limited (JIAL)
(7) Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport, Guwahati – M/s Guwahati International Airport Limited (GIAL)
(8) Thiruvananthapuram International Airport – M/s TRV-Kerala International Airport Limited (TIAL)
The minister said that the airports are leased out in public interest for their better management utilising private sector efficiency and investment. States and passengers are the ultimate beneficiary of enhanced airport infrastructure and facilities created by private partner, who operates, manages and develops the leased airport under PPP.
Greenfield airports in India
Meanwhile, the government has accorded ‘in-principle approval’ for setting up of 21 greenfield airports across the country. So far nine such airports have been operationalised and the tenth at MoPA, Goa was inaugurated on December 11, Singh shared.
Since the year 2018, 7 greenfield airports namely Pakyong (Sikkim), Kannur (Kerela), Kalaburagi (Karnataka), Sindhudurg (Maharashtra), Kushinagar (Uttar Pradesh), Orvakal (Andhra Pradesh) and Donyi Polo (Arunachal Pradesh) airports have been operationalised apart from inauguration of Manohar International Airport in Goa.
