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Functional routes under UDAN rises to 186

New Delhi, Jul 18 (UNI) With the Durgapur airport in West Bengal becoming operational, the number of functional routes under the Government regional connectivity scheme UDAN rose to 186, the government announced on Thursday.
Twelve routes under the UDAN have recently become functional. This takes the total operational routes under UDAN to 186 -- including eight Tourism RCS routes -- of the total 706 sanctioned routes.
The Civil Aviation Ministry said the Durgapur airport is the 40th airport to become functional under the scheme.

The 12 routes with daily flight operations that commenced are Kolkata- Allahabad, Allahabad-Kolkata, Allahabad-Raipur, Raipur-Allahabad, Gwalior- Bangalore,Bangalore-Gwalior, Kolkata-Gwalior, Gwalior- Kolkata, Mumbai – Belgaum, Belgaum-Mumbai, Mumbai – Durgapur and Durgapur-Mumbai.


The Ministry has launched the scheme on October 21, 2016 to stimulate regional air connectivity and making air travel affordable to the masses. Since then three round of biddings have been completed.
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