One Airport In Odisha Among 58 Covered Under Krishi Udan 2.0 Scheme

Bhubaneswar: Veer Surendra Sai Airport is among 58 airports included in the Krishi Udan 2.0 scheme so far, Minister of State for Civil Aviation V K Singh told Lok Sabha on Thursday.

The scheme seeks to enable efficient, timely, and cost-effective air transportation for all agricultural products, particularly those coming from the country’s northeast, hilly, and tribal areas.

While 53 airports were initially included in the pilot project which ran for nearly six months, five more were included, bringing the total number of airports covered to 58.

Here is the entire list of the airports – Adampur, Agartala, Agatti, Agra, Amritsar, Bagdogra, Bareli, Bhuj, Bhuntar, Chandigarh, Coimbatore, Dehradun, Dibrugarh, Dimapur, Gaggal, Goa, Gorakhpur, Hindon, Imphal, Indore, Jaisalmer, Jammu, Jamnagar, Jodhpur, Jorhat, Kanpur, Kolkata, Leh, Lengpui, Lilabari, Nashik, Pakyong, Pantnagar, Pathankot, Patna, Pithoragarh, Port-Blair, Prayagraj, Pune, Raipur, Rajkot, Ranchi, Rupsi, Shillong, Shimla, Silchar, Srinagar, Tezpur, Tezu, Thiruvananthapuram, Tiruchirappalli, Varanasi, Visakhapatnam, Belagavi, Bhopal, Darbhanga, Jabalpur and Jharsuguda.

Notably, Krishi Udan was launched in August 2020, on international and national routes to assist farmers in transporting agricultural products so that it improves their value realisation. Krishi Udan 2.0 was launched a year later to facilitate movement of agricultural produce by air.