Union Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh said recently that India would become the second-largest air traffic market in the world within a decade as the government has adopted an open air policy. Speaking at the official inauguration of the new airport at Nagpur in Maharashtra, named the Dr BR Ambedkar International Airport, he said domestic carriers flew close to 162 million passengers in 2011-12, up from 143 million in 2010-11.
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