{"id":10038,"date":"2023-04-24T07:39:42","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T02:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=10038"},"modified":"2025-03-29T16:58:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T11:28:55","slug":"udan-50-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/udan-50-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"UDAN 5.0 Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About<\/strong> <strong>UDAN 5.0 scheme:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>This round of the scheme focuses on <strong>Category-2 (20-80 seats) and Category-3 (&gt;80 seats<\/strong>).<\/li>\n<li>The earlier <strong>stage length cap of 600 km is waived off<\/strong> and there is no restriction on the distance between the origin and destination of the flight.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Viability gap funding<\/strong> (VGF) to be provided will be <strong>capped at 600 km stage<\/strong> length for both Priority and Non-Priority areas which was earlier capped at 500 km.<\/li>\n<li>Airlines would be required to <strong>commence operations within 4 months<\/strong> of the award of the route. Earlier this deadline was 6 months.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Key facts about UDAN (UdeDeshkaAamNaagrik)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a regional airport development and <strong>&#8220;Regional Connectivity Scheme&#8221; (<\/strong>RCS) of the Union Government of India.<\/li>\n<li>The scheme envisages <strong>providing connectivity to un-served and under-served airports<\/strong> of the country through the revival of existing airstrips and airports.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nodal Ministry<\/strong>: Ministry of Civil Aviation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>What are the Components of UDAN?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Airports:<\/strong> The first component is to <strong>develop new airports and enhance the existing regional airports <\/strong>to increase the number of operational airports for scheduled civilian flights.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Flight routes:<\/strong> The second component is to add several hundred financially viable, capped airfare, and new regional flight routes to connect more than 100 under-served and un-served airports in smaller towns by <strong>using &#8220;Viability Gap Funding&#8221; (VGF) <\/strong>where needed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1) What is Viability Gap Funding?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Viability Gap Funding (VGF) is a financial instrument used by the Indian government to attract private sector investment in public-private partnership (PPP) infrastructure projects, especially in sectors such as power, transport, and water.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleaseIframePage.aspx?PRID=1918622\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Ministry of Civil Aviation Launches UDAN 5.0<\/u><\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UDAN 5.0 scheme  focuses on Category-2 (20-80 seats) and Category-3 (>80 seats).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10039,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10038","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}