<span style="color: #222222;">Government has accorded in-principle approval to set up 21 greenfield airports across the country. This was stated by Minister of State for Civil Aviation Gen VK Singh in a written reply to Rajya Sabha yesterday.<br />''<br />''These airports include Mopa in Goa; Navi Mumbai, Sindhudurg and Shirdi in Maharashtra; Bijapur, Hassan, Kalaburagi and Shimoga in Karnataka; Dabra in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh; Kushinagar and Jewar (Noida) in Uttar Pradesh.<br />''<br />''Other states where these airports will come up are Gujarat, Puducherry, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, Sikkim, Kerala and Arunachal Pradesh.<br />''<br />''Eight of these 21 airports have already been operationalized.<br />''<br />''Greenfield Airport is a term used to identify a new airport, built from scratch in a new location. Such airports are constructed to support the projected requirements of traffic of the existing airport.</span><br />