In five years, India to have 200-220 more airports, heliports, water aerodromes: Scindia

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Scindia further highlighted the work done by the aviation sector in the last nine years of Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government...

While talking about the importance of the aviation ministry, Scindia said, "Be the Covid-19 pandemic or the 'Operation Ganga' (carried out to bring back the Indian students stuck in Ukraine during the Russia-Ukraine war), the civil aviation ministry had a major role to play in bringing back our civilians to India"...

Scindia's press conference on the completion of nine years of the Modi government was held under the 'Mega Jan-Sampark Abhiyan' in which the ministers of the Bharatiya Janata Party will visit the capitals of each State and show the report card of the work done in the last nine years...

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