{"id":90162,"date":"2019-10-29T16:24:59","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T10:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=11219"},"modified":"2019-10-29T16:24:59","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T10:54:59","slug":"udan-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/udan-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"UDAN Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>The government is planning to soon award fresh routes under its regional connectivity scheme Ude Desh ka Aam Naagrik(UDAN).<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About UDAN scheme:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>UDAN scheme was launched in 2016 to make air travel affordable through subsidised tickets and to provide its access to smaller towns.<\/li><li>The Scheme is a key component of the National Civil Aviation Policy (NCAP) which was launched in June 2016.<\/li><li>The idea behind the scheme is to jump-start the regional aviation market by improving profitability of under developed regional routes.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Under the scheme, the government offers incentives to airlines to flag off new flights to neglected smaller cities and towns by providing Viability gap funding to make these operations profitable.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Significance of the scheme:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The scheme is is first-of-its-kind that aims to create affordable yet economically viable and profitable flights on regional routes.<\/li><li>The scheme gives India\u2019s aviation sector a boost by giving chance to small and first-time operators to be part of the rapid growth in passenger traffic.<\/li><li>The state governments would reap the benefit of development of remote areas and will enhance trade and commerce and tourism expansion.<\/li><li>Airport operators will also see their business expanding as would original equipment manufacturers.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Challenges of the scheme:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Infrastructure bottlenecks has led to lower the pace in implementation of the scheme.<\/li><li>Some airports owned by State governments and private players have been hesitant in participating because of low profiting making.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:The government is planning to soon award fresh routes under its regional connectivity scheme Ude Desh ka Aam Naagrik(UDAN). Facts: About UDAN scheme: UDAN scheme was launched in 2016 to make air travel affordable through subsidised tickets and to provide its access to smaller towns. The Scheme is a key component of the National Civil&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/udan-scheme\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UDAN Scheme<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1731],"tags":[7289],"class_list":["post-90162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bill-and-acts","tag-udan-scheme","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":2,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704647412},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}