User Development Fee at Mangalore Airport from Sep 1

(The Hindu)
Passengers boarding flights at the Mangalore airport will have to pay user development fee from next month. It is not applicable to incoming passengers.
Each passenger boarding domestic flights will have to pay Rs. 150 and those boarding flights to other countries will have to pay Rs. 825. However, there are some exemptions.
The user development fee will be in force for 10 years with effect from September 1, Director of the airport M.R. Vasudeva told The Hindu. The Union Ministry of Civil Aviation had approved the levying of the fee on May 25, he said.
Various airlines will collect the fee from the passengers and remit it to the Airports Authority of India (AAI). The fee includes service tax and collection charges of airlines.
Vasudeva said that infants (for infant tickets issued by airlines) would be exempt from paying the fee. Diplomatic passport holders, crew of airlines on duty and transit passengers need not pay the fee.
The AAI needs Rs. 75 lakh a month for maintaining the new air-conditioned terminal building, he said