Govt planning to privatise 20-25 airports in 2nd phase.

• Position: Airports Authority of India chairman Guruprasad Mohapatra

After deciding to privatise six major airports in February this year, the Central government is planning to privatise 20-25 more in the next phase with an expectation that there will be a significant participation by foreign airports, said AAI Chairman Guruprasad Mohapatra on Friday.

Adani Group had won the bids to operate, manage and develop the six airports Lucknow, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Mangaluru, Thiruvananthapuram, and Guwahati which the Airports Authority of India had put up for privatisation in the first round.

"We have privatised six airports... We are now planning to privatise 20-25 airports in next phase," said Mohapatra at a press briefing here.

He said the AAI will decide the names...