Navi Mumbai: Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Navi Mumbai International Airport on Wednesday and said how even the comman man is today able to travel by air in the country today.
“You will remember, in 2014 when the country gave me the opportunity, I had said that my dream is that even someone wearing slippers can travel by air. To fulfill this dream, it was very necessary to build new airports in the country. Our government started working seriously on this mission. In the past 11 years, airports were built one after the other. In 2014, there were only 74 airports in our country, today the number of airports in India has crossed 160,” he said. ADVERTISEMENT
“Due to the UDAN Yojana, lakhs of people have taken to the skies for first time in their lives in the past decade, ful