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Why Is India Building So Many New Airports? ✈️

India plans to add one hundred new airports over the next ten years.

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Key Points

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Target: 100 new airports within ten years.

Budget: roughly thirty thousand crore Indian rupees.

Current count: 166 airports, up from 74 in 2014.

Goal: better travel for small towns, islands and remote regions.

Method: hub‑and‑spoke model linking major and regional airports.

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The government will spend about thirty thousand crore Indian rupees on the project.

More airports mean people in small towns, islands and remote areas can travel faster.

The plan uses a ‘hub‑and‑spoke’ system, where big airports link to many smaller ones.

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6 words

infrastructure

the buildings, roads and facilities needed for travel

regional

relating to a particular area or part of the country

hub-and-spoke

a system where a main airport connects to many smaller airports, like a wheel with a center and spokes

civil aviation

all airplane travel that is not done by the military

non‑resident Indian

an Indian person who lives in another country

financial year

the twelve‑month period the government uses for its budget

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