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India: Government “to Introduce Air Taxi Services for Delhi, Mumbai, Pune”

Dur­ing a recent major Nation­al Avi­a­tion Con­fer­ence held at the Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Audi­to­ri­um in Pashan, Pune enti­tled ‘Chal­lenges in Aero­space for Viksit Bharat — 2047’, Civ­il Avi­a­tion Min­is­ter, Kin­jara­pu Ram Mohan Naidu, said that tri­als will begin in ear­ly 2026 to bring air taxi ser­vices to Del­hi, Mum­bai and Pune, reports indianexpress.com. The two-day event was organ­ised by the ‘Aero­nau­ti­cal Soci­ety of India’.

Naidu remarked that to ease traf­fic con­ges­tion in metro cities, it was imper­a­tive to bring such ser­vices to India and explained, “More than 35 per­cent of air­craft com­po­nents are now man­u­fac­tured in India includ­ing heli­copter equip­ment. The gov­ern­ment is work­ing on increas­ing domes­tic pro­duc­tion and expand­ing air trans­port.”

Naidu com­ment­ed the Gov­ern­ment was also work­ing on region­al air con­nec­tiv­i­ty, stat­ing, “Fifty new air­ports will be built in the next five years, and by 2047, the total num­ber may exceed 200.” Adding, “Noi­da and Navi Mum­bai air­ports are in the final stages of con­struc­tion and flights will begin soon.”

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He went on to say that India has around 30,000 drones already in oper­a­tion, with plans to dra­mat­i­cal­ly increase the num­ber by 2047. He said the gov­ern­ment would reduce import duties on drone equip­ment to pro­mote domes­tic pro­duc­tion.

The Con­fer­ence was attend­ed by offi­cials from DRDO, ISRO and oth­er aero­space organ­i­sa­tions.

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https://www.civilaviation.gov.in

News Source: https://indianexpress.com/

(Top image: Naidu speak­ing at the Nation­al Avi­a­tion Con­fer­ence — Cred­it: X/ @RamMNK)

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