{"id":6115,"date":"2022-12-09T06:24:32","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T00:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=6115"},"modified":"2025-03-27T12:52:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T07:22:43","slug":"21-greenfield-airports-to-be-set-up-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/21-greenfield-airports-to-be-set-up-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"21 Greenfield Airports to be set up in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Greenfield Airports:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Development of a Greenfield airport is governed under the <strong>Greenfield Airports (GFA) Policy, 2008.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>As per the Policy, a State Government or an Airport Developer, willing to establish an airport is required to send a proposal to the Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) for <strong>2-stage approval i.e. &#8216;Site-Clearance&#8217; followed by &#8216;In-Principle&#8217; approval.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Such proposals are considered by MoCA as per the procedure stipulated in the GFA Policy.<\/li>\n<li>The responsibility of implementation of airport projects including funding of the projects rests with the <strong>concerned airport developer including the respective State Government<\/strong> (in case the State Government is the project proponent).<\/li>\n<li>Government of India (GoI) has accorded &#8216;In-Principle&#8217; approval for setting up of <strong>21 Greenfield Airports namely,<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Mopa in <strong>Goa<\/strong>,<\/li>\n<li>Navi Mumbai, Shirdi and Sindhudurg in <strong>Maharashtra<\/strong>,<\/li>\n<li>Kalaburagi, Vijayapura, Hassan and Shivamogga in <strong>Karnataka<\/strong>,<\/li>\n<li>Dabra (Gwalior) in <strong>Madhya Pradesh<\/strong>,<\/li>\n<li>Kushinagar and Noida (Jewar) in <strong>Uttar Pradesh<\/strong>,<\/li>\n<li>Dholera and Hirasar in <strong>Gujarat<\/strong>,<\/li>\n<li>Karaikal in <strong>Puducherry<\/strong>,<\/li>\n<li>Dagadarthi, Bhogapuram and Oravakal (Kurnool) in <strong>Andhra Pradesh<\/strong>,<\/li>\n<li>Durgapur in <strong>West Bengal<\/strong>,<\/li>\n<li>Pakyong in <strong>Sikkim<\/strong>,<\/li>\n<li>Kannur in <strong>Kerala<\/strong> and<\/li>\n<li>Donyi Polo, Itanagar in <strong>Arunachal Pradesh<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Out of these, <strong>9 Greenfield airports<\/strong> Durgapur, Shirdi, Kannur, Pakyong, Kalaburagi, Orvakal (Kurnool), Sindhudurg, Kushinagar and Donyi Polo, Itanagar <strong>have been operationalized.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1)\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Which is India&#8217;s first greenfield airport?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Donyi Polo Airport, Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh is the first greenfield airport in India.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleseDetail.aspx?PRID=1881769\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PIB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Development of a Greenfield airport is governed under the Greenfield Airports (GFA) Policy, 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6116,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6115","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\/6115","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=6115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}