Amritsar Vikas Manch demands to drop Mohali International Airport project

Amritsar: Amritsar Viksas Manch has demanded the dropping of the Mohali International Airport project protect economy of border areas.
In different letters written Friday to to Sonia Gandhi Chairperson UPA and President AICC Dr.Manmohan Singh Prime Minister of India and Parkash Singh Badal Chief Minister of Punjab ,Manch patron Dr Charanjit Singh Gumtala said that the proposed international airport at Mohali will encourage the flight of Industry from Punjab to Badi and some nearby areas of Himachal and Haryana. Mohali airport will not of much benefit to Punjab as 12 out of 20 districts of Punjab are nearer to Amritsar than to chandigarh.
Among 8 districts, which are close to Chandigarh , Patiala , Ropar and Mohali constitute only 2% of the total passenger traffic to foreign countries as per the report of Consulting Engineering Services ( India ) private limited -- a Delhi based firm in association with ICRA Management Consulting Services. Moreover, all these districts have strength of only 23 legislative constituencies out of 117 of the whole Punjab . Thus these districts constitute less than 20% of the total Punjab .
22/12/07 PunjabNewsline.com/Harjit Kaur Matharoo

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