Suresh Prabhu

As Indian airlines seek to expand their fleet, former Union Civil Aviation Minister Suresh Prabhu has said the carriers should look at having a common services facility within the country for maintenance, repair and overhaul works as that will help reduce costs. With Air India placing orders for new aircraft after more than 17 years, he also said the airline should look at flying more on the profitable Gulf routes as well as restoring overseas "historical connections" which it used to operate earlier. Prabhu served as the Civil Aviation Minister from March 2018 to May 2019 and during his tenure also efforts were made to turnaround the loss-making Air India, which was finally taken over by the Tata Group in January 2022 under the government's disinvestment programme. "We should work on having international aviation hubs in India as well as look at having some sort of a common aviation services facility that can be shared by all airlines. Such a facility will help in reducing costs as

Prabhu added that the Indian economy's rate of growth would get accelerated with India's vaccination drive picking up pace, which will revive businesses and, in turn the overall economy

Former environment and power minister and current Sherpa on negotiations with G7 and G20, Suresh Prabhu tells Aditi Phadnis in an interview the approach India should adopt on Net Zero. Edited excerpts

The best way to move forward over the ongoing farmers' protests in Delhi is dialogue and the NDA government is willing to talk to the ryots to resolve the issue, Suresh Prabhu said on Friday.

The demand for resumption of mining in Goa should be tackled sympathetically, India's Sherpa to G20 and G7 Suresh Prabhu said after meeting families of the people dependent on the mining industry

Addressing a virtual ''AML/CFT Conference 2020'', Prabhu said that criminally-minded people use terrorism, and by and large, the kind of terrorism the world is facing is motivated by ideology

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"WTO's reforms have to take into account the interests of all members. It has to come out with a forward-looking agenda in an inclusive manner," Prabhu said

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In an official statement, the aviation ministry also said while as many as 10 airports commenced operations in 2019, 335 routes have been awarded, covering 33 aerodromes during the year

Prabhu said there are three components that are necessary to achieve India's ambition of becoming a $5 trillion economy.

Prabhu also asked why should surrogacy be restricted to one child as provided in the bill.

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He said input costs should be competitive for any sector and the ministry has been of the strong view that the fuel should be brought under the GST regime

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"We have achieved record FDI inflows last year. We have set a target and are already working on bringing in USD 100 billion FDI (by 2020)," Prabhu said

The Board of Approval (BoA), chaired by the commerce secretary, for SEZs only considers proposals for setting up of new zones which have been duly recommended by the state government, says Prabhu

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While India's exports to Turkey stood at $5 billion, imports were only $2.2 billion in 2017-18