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The construction work of the first phase of the Maryada Purushottam Shri Ram International Airport being built in Ayodhya will be completed by December-end, Union Minister Jyotiraditya M Scindia said, adding that airports are a focus area of the government..
Scindia said the first section of the bullet train project is expected to start in three years...
"We are very very focused on our capex programme... we have a Rs 95,000 crore capex plan as far as airports are concerned both by the government, which will be about 25 per cent, and 75 by the private sector," the Minister for Civil Aviation and Steel said, addressing a conference on "overall development in the infrastructure in India"...
"By the end of this month, I will assure you it will be ready and when it will be completed, PM Narendra Modi will inaugurate it," he said.. Scindia further said the second airport in Navi Mumbai and the Jewar airport in Uttar Pradesh will be operational by the end of next year...
However 2014 onwards, the country added 75 airports and helipads, taking the total number 149, and by 2030 this will reach, the minister said.. Speaking on the railways sector, Scindia said it saw a transformation after 2014 with the introduction of new high speed Vande Bharat trains, which can touch a speed of 100 km in just 52 seconds...
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