{"id":15131,"date":"2016-08-30T11:29:02","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T11:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=15131"},"modified":"2016-08-30T11:29:02","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T11:29:02","slug":"maharashtra-government-develop10-airports-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/maharashtra-government-develop10-airports-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Maharashtra government to develop10 airports in the state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: Recently the Maharashtra government signed an agreement with Civil Aviation Ministry and the Airports Authority of India for developing 10 airports in the state under the centre&#8217;s regional connectivity scheme (RCS). Which of the following place is not included?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) Kolhapur<br \/>\n(b) Shirdi<br \/>\n(c) Amravati<br \/>\n(d) Pune<br \/>\n<strong>Ans: (d)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">On 23 August 2016 Maharashtra government signed an agreement with Civil Aviation Ministry and the Airports Authority of India for developing 10 airports in the state under the centre&#8217;s regional connectivity scheme (RCS).<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The MoU signed in presence of Civil Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju and the Chief Minister of Maharashtra Devendra Fadnavis.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Maharashtra becomes the first state in the country to do so.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 10 airports &#8211; Kolhapur, Shirdi, Amravati, Gondia, Nashik, Jalgaon, Nanded, Solapur, Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg will be developed,<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">State will contribute 20 per cent cost of Viability Gap Funding, whereas the centre will bear the remaining 80 per cent cost.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">As per the MoU, the state government will reduce the Local Body Tax (LBT) on air fuel from existing 10 per cent to 1 per cent for a period of 10 years.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The MoU states that government will provide essential land free of cost.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">These airports will be provided with roads, rail, Metro and waterway connectivity.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The state government will also provide electricity, water and necessary facilities at concessional rates.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">For development of Greenfield international airport at Rajgurunagar (New Chakan), the Airport Authority will send a team for preliminary study in first week of September 2016.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=149131\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=149131<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Dev_Fadnavis\/status\/768020827593928704\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/Dev_Fadnavis\/status\/768020827593928704<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesstoday.in\/sectors\/aviation\/aai-to-develop-10-airports-in-maharashtra\/story\/236437.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.businesstoday.in\/sectors\/aviation\/aai-to-develop-10-airports-in-maharashtra\/story\/236437.html<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/article\/pti-stories\/maharashtra-signs-mou-with-centre-aai-to-develop-10-airports-116082300939_1.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/article\/pti-stories\/maharashtra-signs-mou-with-centre-aai-to-develop-10-airports-116082300939_1.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Recently the Maharashtra government signed an agreement with Civil Aviation Ministry and the Airports Authority of India for developing 10 airports in the state under the centre&#8217;s regional connectivity scheme (RCS). Which of the following place is not included? (a) Kolhapur (b) Shirdi (c) Amravati (d) Pune Ans: (d) Related facts: On 23 August [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1143],"tags":[2497],"class_list":["post-15131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pp","tag-planning-project-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}