International Flights flying from Bhubaneswar Airport to Other Countries

 

International Flights flying from Bhubaneswar Airport to Other Countries

 Dear friends

 On 20.12.20, RTI Application was  filed  to  the Central Public Information Officer, Office of Airport Authority of India, Regional Office, Bhubaneswar Seeking information about   details of international flight flying from Biju Patnaik Airport to other countries. The RTI query  is sought  as follows.

 A.      Name of the flight with No.  flying  from Bhubaneswar  to other  countries  ( name)

B.      Provide  total no. of  tourists travelled  to  Odisha  from  these  foreign  countries  from 2017  to  2020 through  these International flights  ( Year-wise)

C.      Provide  total amount  of  subsidy  given  by Govt. of Odisha  for it ( Year-wise)  and  calculation made  for  fixing  certain subsidy amount.

 RTI Application routed through many offices and at last reached   in the   Department of Tourism, Government   of Odisha .  This Department did not supply the information and kept it pending for so many months. When first appeal was filed, the information was supplied on 23.8.21 which is as follows.

 1.      Air Asia AK-30  is the  only  International Flight  which is flying  from   Bhubaneswar to Kuala Lumpur ( Malayasia) and Air Asia AK-31  ( from Kuala Lumpur to Bhubaneswar).

2.      Tourist traveled  to Odisha  from Kuala Lampur

 

Year	Total
2017	23,164
2018	31,697
2019	25,523
2020	4342

3.       Total amount  of subsidy  given  by Government  of Odisha for it.

Year	Amount
2017-18	4,43,70,000.00
2018-19	2,53,06,000.00
Total	6,96,76,500.00

Subsidy/GvF   extended  to M/S Air ASIA Berhad  from 26.4.2017 to 25.4.2018 @ Rs. 1,70,000 ( inclusive of all taxes  and duties ) for every completed  round up.

 Subsidy/GvF   extended  to M/S Air ASIA Berhad  from 26.4.2018 to 25.4.2019 @ Rs. 97,500 ( inclusive of all taxes  and duties ) for every completed  round up.

 Pradip Pradhan

M-9937843482

Date- 27.8.21