Civil Aviation Promotion Policy of Uttar Pradesh 2017

Civil Aviation Promotion Policy of Uttar Pradesh 2017

Civil aviation sector is an enabler of economic growth and development of the state and the country. To facilitate the inclusive growth in this sector, Government of India has launched National Civil Aviation Policy 2016 and Regional Connectivity Scheme (RCS) with a vision to connect the underserved as well as unserved airports/airstrips/locations through incentives from central and state governments. Such airports/locations are marked as RCS airports/locations. State governments are expected/encouraged to identify the locations as well as the routes and to declare incentives beyond the mandates envisaged in RCS to attract the airlines and start new routes. There is no comprehensive state civil aviation policy in U.P. so far. First round of bidding under RCS has not been very successful from U.P. perspective. There is a need to develop state civil aviation policy to attract the airlines/air operators in U.P. to cover underserved and unserved airstrips and cities during second round of RCS bidding. Civil Aviation Promotion Policy of Uttar Pradesh 2017 intends to provide the necessary direction for the growth of this sector in the state.