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The Dollar Business Bureau Minister of Commerce and Industry and Civil Aviation Suresh Prabhu said on Monday that India will become a $5 trillion dollar economy but it is just a matter of time. “Trade can only happen once products are manufactured. India must produce and increase the scale of the production to increase its share in the global economy,” Prabhu said, while speaking at an event organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) in New Delhi. The Minister said that the services sector is also important and will generate jobs. And in this regard, the Government has allocated Rs.5,000 crore toward 12 champion service sectors. While he believes that services exports will be more than the merchandise exports, Prabhu said that for ...

Niladri Nath The government is now working on a national level plan to make unused airstrips operational again, which will offer easy air connectivity to the people who are living in far-flung areas of the country. For this, the government will be spending Rs.16,000 crore in the next five years to upgrade the airport infrastructure, said Civil Aviation Secretary R. N. Choubey on Friday.   Choubey was speaking at the Aviation Summit 2017, jointly organised by Ministry of Civil Aviation, government of Andhra Pradesh and Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) in Vijaywada city of Andhra Pradesh. “We want to increase the number of air passengers to such a level that in the next five to seven years, India will become the third ...

PTI   Maharashtra today became the first state to sign an agreement with the civil aviation ministry to develop 10 almost non-functional regional airports/airstrips helping move closer to reality the Centre's ambitious regional connectivity plan. The fully subsidised regional connectivity scheme (RCS) seeks to cap ticket prices so as to make flying more affordable and accessible to the common man and is part of the ambitious National Civil Aviation Policy 2016 cleared by the Cabinet on June 15. The agreement was inked in the presence of Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and top Airport Authority officials. The 10 airports to be developed under the plan are Kolhapur, Shirdi, Amravati, Gondia, Nashik, Jalgaon, Nanded, Solapur, Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg, wherein the state will ...

PTI A new terminal will be constructed at Leh airport with an investment of around Rs.200 crore which will increase the passenger handling capacity, Civil Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju said today.With the new terminal, the peak hour passenger capacity is expected to go up to 800 from current level of 250.State-owned Airports Authority of India (AAI) is operating the Leh airport, which has been seeing increased flight movements in recent times."Leh Airport - New terminal to be constructed at Rs.200 cr to increase peak hour passenger capacity from 250 to 800," Raju said in a tweet.Leh airport handled little over four lakh passengers in the last financial year ended March 2106. During the same period, there were 3,434 aircraft movements.Last month, the Jammu and ...

The Dollar Business Bureau The government decided not to hike urea prices for the next three years, said Union MoS for Chemical and Fertilizers, Hansraj Gangaram Ahir. While addressing the gathering present at the NDA government’s ‘Vikas Parv,’ Ahir stated that some measures have to be implemented to benefit farmers as Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government strives for the welfare of the farmers. Ahir was accompanied by the Civil Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapati Raju for the event. The minister advised farmers to use neem-coated urea as it requires less investment and output too increases than with the usage of the regular urea, Ahir added. Meanwhile, plans are afoot to revive FCI’s Talcher fertilizer plant which may commence soon with an investment of Rs.6000 crore. ...

Core security is with the government. Only non-core security is being outsourced to involve them in areas like baggage pick up as trained manpower is required Source: PTI   "The system is in place at some airports. But it depends on the number of passengers. Where passengers are high, the equipment will be installed," Ashok Gajapathi Raju said, adding that this was a dynamic process. No core security activity is being privatised at airports across the country and only non-core security is being outsourced, government said in Rajya Sabhaon Tuesday. "No core security activity is being privatised. Core security is with the government. Only non-core security is being outsourced to involve them in areas like baggage pick up as trained manpower is required. We ...