New airlines to start on Friday connecting Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, and Maharashtra.
Airline SpiceJet is supposed to start news 8 flights connecting Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Gujarat from Friday. The services are being seen as a major boost to the central government’s UDAN (Ude Desh Ka Aam Nagrik) scheme which aims to enhance air connectivity to remote areas and make such travel more affordable.
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In a bid to boost the regional connectivity of MP, Sh @JM_Scindia Ji, HMCA along with Sh @ChouhanShivraj, CM, MP virtually flagged off 8 new routes from Madhya Pradesh to Maharashtra & Gujarat today. #SabUdenSabJuden #IncredibleIndia pic.twitter.com/fxVE5Dm2gi
The routes were virtually flagged off at an event on Friday which was attended by the newly appointed aviation minister Jyotiraditya Scindia, agriculture minister Narendra Singh Tomar and Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan. “Rakesh Singh, MP, Jabalpur, Sh Pradeep Singh Kharola, Secretary, MoCA, and other senior officials were also present during the flag off,” the aviation ministry tweeted.
Chouhan said it is important to join all cities of India by means of airways to ensure that the country continues to prosper, adding through the UDAN scheme, several small cities have been provided with air connectivity.
“It is Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s dream that a person wearing slippers also gets to travel by air. Today, air travel is not only important for the rich, it has become a necessity for development. Hence, the middle classes and the lower middle classes want to travel by air and save time,” Chouhan said.
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