India to make 121 airports carbon neutral: Scindia

Twenty-five airports in the country are using 100 per cent green energy, while another 121 airports will be made carbon neutral by 2025, Union Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia announced.

Scindia made the comments in his virtual address at the two-day EU-India aviation summit. The summit will focus on EU-India air transport relations and the mutually shared challenges and opportunities of the two regions, such as the post-Covid recovery of air traffic, increasing sustainability, maintaining safety and the development of unmanned aircraft systems.

The summit will bring together top-level policy makers, industry executives and stakeholders from both the EU and India.

The Aviation Minister noted that India has reformed the regulatory mechanism to promote aircraft manufacturing in the country.