UDAN Scheme: UDAN scheme to be extended for 10 years

Newsdesk:
The Udan (UDAN) scheme launched on October 21, 2016 to connect small towns and common people with air travel will now be extended for 10 years.  Under the scheme, 601 air routes in the country have been connected and 14.4 million passengers have traveled in 2.84 lakh flights.  The first take off under the flight plan was on April 27, 2017 from Shimla to Delhi.
 Union Civil Aviation Minister K Rammohan Naidu said the plan would be further expanded to include helicopter services and seaplanes in the future.  A demo of this will be done in November, which will see the demo of several companies to enhance the sea-plane scheme in the country.