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उड़ान — उड़े देश का आम नागरिक (क्षेत्रीय संपर्क योजना)
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गिनती 62 प्रतिशत बढ़ी, 100 नहीं, और कई नए हवाई अड्डों से उड़ानें बंद हो चुकी हैं। घोषणापत्र का आधार 2019 में 101 चालू हवाई अड्डे था और वादा था कि 2024 तक उसे दोगुना यानी लगभग 202 किया जाएगा। नागर विमानन मंत्रालय ने 12 मार्च 2026 को संसद को बताया कि ‘देश में चालू हवाई अड्डों की कुल संख्या 164 है’ — और भारतीय विमानपत्तन प्राधिकरण के 22 अन्य हवाई अड्डे ग़ैर-चालू हैं। बड़ा निष्कर्ष उसी उत्तर में है: बिहार, झारखंड और उत्तर प्रदेश में चालू किए गए सोलह उड़ान हवाई अड्डों में से उत्तर प्रदेश के छह पर कोई उड़ान नहीं है, मुख्यतः इसलिए कि ‘तीन-वर्षीय व्यवहार्यता अंतर वित्तपोषण की अवधि’ समाप्त हो गई।
“2014 में 65 चालू हवाई अड्डे थे और आज कुल 101 चालू हवाई अड्डे हैं। अगले पाँच वर्षों में हम चालू हवाई अड्डों की संख्या दोगुनी करेंगे।”कोई कैग निष्पादन लेखापरीक्षा प्रकाशित नहीं
इस योजना पर कैग की कोई निष्पादन लेखापरीक्षा प्रकाशित नहीं हुई है। लेखापरीक्षा का न होना इस बात का प्रमाण नहीं है कि दावा सही है या ग़लत।
इस अवधि के हवाई अड्डा विकास की कोई कैग लेखापरीक्षा हमारे पास मौजूद रिपोर्टों में संसद में नहीं रखी गई है। उड़ान क्षेत्रीय संपर्कता योजना की एक कैग निष्पादन लेखापरीक्षा इस संग्रह में है और उड़ान प्रविष्टि में उद्धृत है।
कोई लेखापरीक्षा अवधि नहीं — इस योजना पर कैग की कोई निष्पादन लेखापरीक्षा प्रकाशित नहीं हुई।
164 operational airports; 22 Airports Authority airports non-operational; 13 of 24 approved greenfield airports operationalised
उत्तर प्रदेश के छह उड़ान हवाई अड्डों — कुशीनगर, चित्रकूट, मुरादाबाद, अलीगढ़, आज़मगढ़ और श्रावस्ती — पर कोई निर्धारित उड़ान नहीं है, और मंत्रालय जो कारण गिनाता है वे हैं व्यवहार्यता अंतर वित्तपोषण की समाप्ति, कम दृश्यता, केवल दिन में संचालन, विमानों की कमी, पट्टे की दिक़्क़तें और कम यात्री भार।
Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 3401, Non-Operational Airports — answer by the Ministry of Civil Aviation
The 2019 promise carries its own baseline, which makes it unusually easy to test: "In 2014 there were 65 functional airports and there are a total of 101 functional airports today. In the next five years, we will double the number of functional airports."
Doubling 101 means about 202 functional airports by 2024.
The Ministry of Civil Aviation told the Lok Sabha on 12 March 2026: "The total number of operational airports in the country is 164. In addition, 22 airports of Airports Authority of India (AAI) are non-operational at present." On greenfield development: "The Government of India has accorded in-principle approval for the construction of 24 new Greenfield airports across the country so far. As on date, 13 Greenfield airports have been operationalised."
One hundred and sixty-four against a target of about 202, two years after the deadline. That is a 62 per cent increase on the 2019 base — a substantial expansion of aviation infrastructure by any historical standard, and not the doubling promised.
The more revealing part of the answer is what happens after an airport opens. Sixteen UDAN airports were operationalised in Bihar, Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh — Darbhanga, Purnea, Deoghar, Jamshedpur, Kanpur, Prayagraj, Kushinagar, Bareilly, Chitrakoot, Moradabad, Aligarh, Azamgarh, Shravasti, Ayodhya, Hindon and Agra. Of these, six in Uttar Pradesh "have no scheduled flight operations": Kushinagar, Chitrakoot, Moradabad, Aligarh, Azamgarh and Shravasti.
The ministry lists the reasons without evasion, and the first is the structural one: "completion of the three-year Viability Gap Funding (VGF) support period, poor visibility conditions, daytime runway restrictions at VFR-only airports, shortage of aircraft, leasing issues, temporary discontinuation by airlines, novation of routes and low passenger load factors."
That is the design problem of the regional connectivity scheme in a sentence. UDAN subsidises a route for three years on the assumption that demand will become self-sustaining. Where it does not, the flights stop and the terminal remains — built, inaugurated and empty. Kushinagar, a greenfield airport, is on the ministry's own list of operationalised greenfield airports and simultaneously has no flights.
An airport counted as operational is therefore not necessarily an airport anyone can fly from. Our verdict is partly accurate.
BJP Sankalp Patra 2019 — Lok Sabha election manifesto
“Through this Sankalp Patra, you would get a glimpse of the challenges of the yesteryears, the indomitable efforts made by 130 crore Indians to overcome those challenges and our collective vision for the future… There are two commitments that I am extremely passionate about — doubling of farmer income and housing for all, by the year 2022.”
Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 3401, Non-Operational Airports — answer by the Ministry of Civil Aviation
“The total number of operational airports in the country is 164. In addition, 22 airports of Airports Authority of India (AAI) are non-operational at present. The Government of India has accorded in-principle approval for the construction of 24 new Greenfield airports across the country so far. As on date, 13 Greenfield airports have been operationalised. Out of these, Kushinagar Airport does not have scheduled flight operations at present… Under the UDAN scheme, the airports namely Darbhanga and Purnea in the state of Bihar, Deoghar and Jamshedpur in the state of Jharkhand, and Kanpur, Prayagraj, Kushinagar, Bareilly, Chitrakoot, Moradabad, Aligarh, Azamgarh, Shravasti, Ayodhya, Hindon and Agra in the state of Uttar Pradesh have been operationalized. All the above airports have scheduled flight operations, except six airports in Uttar Pradesh, namely, Kushinagar, Chitrakoot, Moradabad, Aligarh, Azamgarh, and Shravasti, where operations are temporarily discontinued due to factors such as completion of the three-year Viability Gap Funding (VGF) support period, poor visibility conditions, daytime runway restrictions at VFR-only airports, shortage of aircraft, leasing issues, temporary discontinuation by airlines, novation of routes and low passenger load factors.”