India has become the world's third-largest aviation market: President Ms. Droupadi Murmu

India has become the third largest aviation market in the world, after the number of airports in the country increased from 74 in 2014 to 147 in 2022, as per the President of India, Ms. Droupadi Murmu. She added that the Indian Railways is also emerging as a modern institution with many inaccessible areas being added to the rail map of the country.

UDAN (Ude Desh ka Aam Naagrik) is the government's regional air connectivity scheme and UDAN flights have carried around 1.15 crores of people over the last six years. Ms. Droupadi Murmu said that UDAN Yojana has played an important role in the aviation industry.

The inaccessible areas of Jammu and Kashmir and Northeast are also being connected with the railways where the major railway stations of the country are also being modernized. An addition of a modern as well as semi-high-speed train in the Indian railways has also been done, known as Vande Bharat Express. Indian railways is working on building the world’s largest electric railway network and also expanding the indigenous technology-KAVACH- to make Indian railways better.

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