India will see an of almost Rs 1 lakh crore in the airport sector over the next few years to both build new Airports and expand existing ones.
New airports targeted to be built in the next five years include Navi Mumbai; Vijayapura, Hassan andShivamoggain Karnataka; Noida (Jewar) in UP; Dholera and Hirasar in Gujarat, and Bhogapuram in Andhra Pradesh, Union minister for state for aviation General V K Singh (retired).
Modernisation projects are underway at the existing Delhi, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Lucknow, Guwahati, Ahmedabad and Mangaluru airports. Also, the government plans to develop 100 airports by 2024 under RCS-UDAN.