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No. 1289Problem statementMobility and logistics

Development of a Real-time Airfare Price Index for India through Automated Web Scraping of Airline and Online Travel Aggregator Portals for Augmentation of the Consumer Price Index (CPI).

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The airfare-index proposal should collect and normalize airline/OTA quotes across representative DGCA-informed city pairs and booking windows of 1, 7, 15, 30 and 45 days. It should distinguish fare components, sold-out flights, cancellations, missing values and outliers, then compute daily, weekly and monthly indices using prescribed routes and weights. Requested validation includes at least 30 back-tested days against DGCA monthly averages. Any collection must respect source terms, robots rules and rate limits; anti-bot bypass is not a recommended implementation.