Union Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh informed Lok Sabha that the government has received proposals for setting up of greenfield airports at Itanagar in Arunachal Pradesh; Greater Noida or Jewar in Uttar Pradesh; Dholera region and Dwaraka in Gujarat.
It also received proposal for airport in Machhiwara near Ludhiana, Punjab; Ongle, Prakasham district in Andhra Pradesh; Aranmula-Pathamathitta district in Kerala; Solapur and Bolera in Maharashtra; Rohtak in Haryana; Alwar in Rajasthan; Bellari in Karnataka; Jamshedpur in Jharkhand and Rumari village in Assam which are at the different stages of examination in accordance with the Policy for Greenfield Airports.
The minister further informed that keeping in view the enormous growth in air passengers and to encourage infusion of great investment in airport sector preferably through Public Private Partnership (PPP), Government had pronounced a Policy for Greenfield Airports in April, 2008.
Involvement of participation of private players depends on the commercial decision of individual airport promoter and many other factors.