As many as 29 airports and terminals within the nation have been named after eminent personalities and dignitaries, with the most recent one being the Shaheed Bhagat Singh worldwide airport in Chandigarh.
There are a complete of 24 airports and 5 terminals which are named after eminent personalities/ dignitaries, in keeping with an inventory acquired by PTI by means of an RTI utility.
Nevertheless, the checklist doesn’t embrace particulars concerning the lately renamed Chandigarh airport. On September 28, Chandigarh worldwide airport was renamed as Shaheed Bhagat Singh Worldwide Airport.
The renaming occurred a day earlier than the one hundred and fifteenth beginning anniversary of freedom fighter Bhagat Singh.
As per the checklist, 4 airports are named after three former prime ministers. They’re Indira Gandhi Worldwide Airport within the nationwide capital, Rajiv Gandhi Worldwide Airport at Hyderabad in Telangana, Lal Bahadur Shastri Airport at Varanasi and Chaudhary Charan Singh Airport at Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh.
Varied airports are additionally named after former chief ministers, together with Biju Patnaik Airport at Bhubaneswar in Odisha.
The checklist additionally consists of Kangra airport, Gaggal and Kullu-Manali airport, Bhuntar, each of that are in Himachal Pradesh. Nevertheless, it was not clear after which eminent personalities/ dignitaries these two airports have been named.
Moreover, there are 5 airport terminals named after eminent personalities and dignitaries. These embrace Anna worldwide terminal and Kamraj home terminal in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, and two N T Rama Rao terminals at airports in Hyderabad in Telangana, as per the checklist.
At the moment, there are 131 operational airports within the nation, together with 29 worldwide and 92 home airports. There are 10 customs airports as properly. There are additionally 8 heliports and a couple of waterdromes, as per official knowledge.
An elaborate course of is adopted in naming and renaming of airports, and the ultimate approval has to come back from the Union Cupboard.
Typically, airports are identified by the identify of town the place they’re situated. In some instances, a selected identify is proposed by the respective state authorities supported by a decision handed within the state legislative meeting involved. The identical is then despatched to the Union Cupboard for the ultimate approval.
With the nice development potential of the nation’s civil aviation sector, the federal government goals to have a complete of 220 airports by 2030.