New Delhi, Feb. 26 -- "India will be the number one aviation market by 2047. The UDAAN (Ude Desh ka Aam Naagrik) scheme has benefited 1 crore and 50 lakh people, connected 88 airports across the country, and helped us to start 619 new routes which was not possible before. In the next 10 years, we plan to include four crore more passengers into the UDAAN Network and create 120 new destinations," said Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu, Union Minister for Civil Aviation, as he delivered a keynote address at the second edition of Build India Infra Awards 2025.

Over the past five years, the Union Government's capital expenditure on major infrastructure has grown at an impressive rate of 38.8% from FY20 to FY24. "I don't think any other country in the...