Which of the following is NOT an amendment made to the Airport Economic Regulatory Authority (AERA) Amendment Act, 2021?

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1. Summary of the AERA (Amendment) Act, 2021:
- The amendment removed the fixed passenger-threshold definition and empowered the central government to notify any airport as a "major airport" by notification.
- It explicitly allows bundling profit-making and loss-making airports and offering airports as packages in PPP mode to bidders.

2. Evaluate each statement:
- (1) "The government can call any airport a major airport just by notification." — True. This power was given by the 2021 amendment.
- (2) "The government will club together profit-making and loss-making airports." — True. The amendment permits bundling/cross-subsidisation.
- (3) "The government can offer airports as a package in PPP mode to the prospective bidders." — True. Packaging for PPP bids is allowed.
- (4) "A major airport is one which has an annual traffic of minimum 35 lakh passengers." — NOT an amendment. That numeric threshold (35 lakh = $3.5	imes10^6$ passengers) was the earlier statutory definition; the 2021 amendment removed the fixed threshold and replaced it with government notification.

Conclusion: statement (4) is NOT an amendment made by the AERA (Amendment) Act, 2021.

FINAL_ANSWER: d

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