UDAN has to include freight at some point: Deloitte's Peeyush Naidu

Over these two rounds for award of routes, 70 airports will get connected through scheduled flights, says Naidu, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India LLP partner

Global consultancy company Deloitte has been working with the Union civil aviation ministry on the regional connectivity scheme UDAN (Ude Desh ka Aam Nagrik) for the past three years. It believes the demands like the inclusion of international flight services, connecting smaller airports to larger metros, etc, under the scheme are a reflection of market response and the scheme needs to respond back to incorporate some of these elements.

Deloitte India partner Peeyush Naidu, who is part of the team working with the ministry on UDAN, tells B Dasarath Reddy that, besides looking at some of these demands, the scheme