{"id":6609,"date":"2019-12-09T10:33:11","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T10:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=6609"},"modified":"2019-12-09T10:33:13","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T10:33:13","slug":"government-launches-4th-round-of-air-connectivity-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/government-launches-4th-round-of-air-connectivity-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Government launches 4th round of air connectivity scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Government has launched the 4th round of the regional\nconnectivity scheme, UDAN to boost connectivity to more remote and regional\nareas of the country. UDAN, which stands for \u2018Ude Desh Ka Aam Nagrik\u2019, aims to\nmake air travel affordable and widespread. The UDAN 4.0 will focus on the\npriority regions including the northeast, hilly states, Jammu and Kashmir UT,\nLadakh and islands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The VGF provision for Category 2 \/ 3 aircraft (with more\nthan 20 seats) has been enhanced for the operation of flights under RCS to\npriority areas. The VGF cap applicable for operation of category 1 \/ 1 A\naircraft (below 20 seaters) has also been revised to incentivize the operation\nof smaller aircraft under the scheme. The Civil Aviation Ministry aims to operationalize\naround 1000 routes and develop more than 100 airports in the next five years.\nThe Ministry aims to achieve this by focusing on operationalizing routes in the\npriority areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Government has launched the 4th round of the regional connectivity scheme, UDAN to boost connectivity to more remote and regional areas of the country. UDAN, which stands for \u2018Ude Desh Ka Aam Nagrik\u2019, aims to make air travel affordable and widespread. The UDAN 4.0 will focus on the priority regions including the northeast, hilly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":6610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[832],"tags":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-6609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-december-2019"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6611,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6609\/revisions\/6611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6609"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=6609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}