Government to hand over 14 more domestic airports to private parties.

Government, which is proceeding with privatising six airports including those at Kolkata and Chennai, intends to give away 14 more to private parties for operation and development during the 12th Plan period, Rajya Sabha was told recently.

The six airports developed by state-run Airports Authority of India (AAI), where the government is in the process of entering into public-private partneship (PPP) mode, are Kolkata, Chennai, Lucknow, Guwahati, Jaipur and Ahmedabad.

The other AAI-developed airports which the government is planning to bring under the PPP mode are at Bhubaneshwar, Coimbatore, Trichy, Varanasi, Indore, Amritsar, Udaipur, Gaya, Raipur, Bhopal, Agartala, Imphal, Mangalore and Vadodara, Minister of State for Civil Aviation K C Venugopal said in reply to a question.

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