₹1.75 trillion after having missed the ₹2.1 trillion target this fiscal by a huge margin owing to the disruption caused by the pandemic.
Of the next year’s target, a major portion of ₹1 trillion is to come from stake sale in state run banks and financial institutions.
Monetising physical assets is also a big part of it, the proceeds of which will go for further infrastructure creation.Industry observers, however, find the privatisation of next set of airports not an easy task given disruption caused by the pandemic.
The civil aviation ministry’s plan is to privatize about 30-35 airports over the next five years, of which, six of them to be part of the next round are airports at Varanasi, Bhubaneshwar, Amritsar, Indore, Raipur and Trichi..