{"id":8876,"date":"2022-10-29T01:12:17","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T19:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=8876"},"modified":"2025-10-31T13:05:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T07:35:18","slug":"udan-scheme-upsc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/udan-scheme-upsc\/","title":{"rendered":"UDAN scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About UDAN scheme:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3><strong>Regional Connectivity Scheme (RCS)-UDAN<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>UDAN (UdeDeshkaAamNaagrik) is a regional airport development and &#8220;Regional Connectivity Scheme&#8221; (RCS) of the Union Government.<\/li>\n<li>The scheme UDAN envisages providing connectivity to un-served and under-served airports of the country through revival of existing air-strips and airports.<\/li>\n<li>Implementing Ministry:\u00a0<strong>Ministry of Civil Aviation<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>This is first-of-its-kind scheme globally to create economically viable flights on regional routes so that flying becomes affordable to the common man even in small towns.<\/li>\n<li>It is a\u00a0key component of the National Civil Aviation Policy (NCAP)\u00a0which was released by the Ministry of Civil Aviation (India) in 2016.<\/li>\n<li>The scheme is\u00a0jointly funded by the central government and state governments.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Two components of UDAN:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Airports:<\/strong>The first component is to\u00a0develop new airports and enhance the existing regional airports\u00a0to increase the number of operational airports for scheduled civilian flights.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Flight routes:<\/strong>The second component is to\u00a0add several hundred financially-viable, capped-airfare, new regional flight routes\u00a0to connect more than 100 under-served and un-served airports in smaller towns\u00a0by using &#8220;Viability Gap Funding&#8221; (VGF) where needed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleseDetail.aspx?PRID=1871644\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PIB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UDAN is a regional airport development and &#8220;Regional Connectivity Scheme&#8221; (RCS) of the Union Government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8877,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8876","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\/8876","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=8876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}