Around 25 Airports Authority of India (AAI) airports have been earmarked by the Centre for asset monetisation over the next three years under the National Monetization Pipeline (NMP).
These airports include Bhubaneshwar, Varanasi, Amritsar, Trichy, Indore, Raipur, Calicut, Coimbatore, Nagpur, Patna, Madurai, Surat, Ranchi, Jodhpur, Chennai, Vijayawada, Vadodara, Bhopal, Tirupati, Hubli, Imphal, Agartala, Udaipur, Dehradun and Rajahmundry.
Minister of State for Civil Aviation General Dr VK Singh announced this in Lok Sabha on Thursday in a written reply after Member of Parliament Mimi Chakraborty asked whether the government proposes to privatise another 30-35 airports of the country in the next five years.
Singh said that the criteria adopted for the monetisation of airport assets under the NMP are for airports having annual traffic above the threshold of 0.4 million passengers (in FY 2019 and 2020) and also airports with a sizeable ongoing or proposed capital expenditure plan as per the National Infrastructure Pipeline (NIP).