The Government has accorded in-principle approval for setting up of 21 Greenfield Airports across the country. So far nine Greenfield airports have already been operationalized and the tenth Greenfield airport at Mopa, Goa has been inaugurated on 11th of this month.<br />'' <br />'' This information was given by Minister of State for Civil Aviation General V. K. Singh (Retd) in a written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha today.<br />'' <br />'' The Minister said that during the pre-covid period, in the year 2018-19 the number of passengers footfall at airports across the country had increased by 11.6 per as compared to 2017-18.<br />'' <br />''Passenger footfall had decreased during pandemic era. However, post-covid, in the year 2021-22, the trend shows an increase of 63.7 percent over the year 2020-21.