New Delhi, March 14 (Agency) Government on Monday said in Parliament that the per day passenger traffic in the aviation sector has almost returned to the pre pandemic level in the country. “In pre covid times, the maximum number of passengers in India per day was close to about Rs 4 lakh. We reached a level of 3.83 lakh per day in the month of December. So we are very well on our way back to recovery, roughly about 5 to 6 per cent off from pre pandemic level,” Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia informed Rajya Sabha during Question Hour.
He said the sector has been affected very deeply on the economic front and in the third Covid wave, the passenger traffic went down to almost about 1.60 lakh passengers per day. “I am pleased to inform the House that yesterday we again reached a level of 3.8 lakh passengers per day. We are seeing a resuscitation in the sector and with that, we hope to see a rebound in terms of employment opportunities,” the Minister said. Scindia was responding to Shivsena MP Anil Desai who asked about the government’s steps to restore the loss of jobs caused due to the pandemic in the aviation sector.