A scheme started in 2017 was UDAN-RCS.
UDAN is Ude Desh ka Aam Naagrik – so development of regional airports. At the beginning of the scheme, we had 486 airports, but fully operational for civil operations were limited. Initial target was to develop new, or enhance existing, regional airports with regular scheduled flights from 70 (in May 2016), to at least 150 airports (by December 2018).
RCS - Regional Connectivity Scheme is to add several hundred, capped-airfare, new regional flight routes to connect more than 100 airports in smaller towns with each other / with airports in bigger cities.
I could not get any comment upon the success of the scheme but there are some financial issues. And corona would certainly have impacted actually flying on new routes - present status is about 300 new routes have been added.
https://m.economictimes.com/topic/Udan-scheme/amp
This time the link shared is not of the scheme as such but a glimpse into what is in the offing.
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From my friend MDC who stays in the US: Such flights also connect small towns to bigger airports for onward journey. I have lived in small towns. DuBois has a population of about 7500. It had two flights to Pittsburgh which was only 45 minutes away by air. Actually, the flight had another stop before Pittsburgh. DuBois to P was 2 hours by road. The planes were small carrying 8 passengers. It made travel much easier.
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