Updated On: 10 July, 2014 12:54 PM IST | | IANS
<p>New airports will be developed in smaller cities and towns to encourage air travel in the country, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley announced on Thursday</p>
New Delhi: New airports will be developed in smaller cities and towns to encourage air travel in the country, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley announced on Thursday.
The Airport Authority of India (AAI) will build the airports through public private partnership (PPP) process, the minister told the Lok Sabha while presenting the national budget. Jaitely said that while air travel has increased, it is still a dream of many Indian to fly.