Centre urged to reconsider Tawang airport plan

Itanagar: Arunachal Lok Sabha MP Takam Sanjoy has appealed to the Centre to reconsider the proposal for construction of a Greenfield Airport at Tawang taking into consideration its strategic location and country’s security. His plea follows the ‘news’ that the Union Ministry concerned had put on hold the proposal.
In a letter to Praful Patel, the Union Minister of Civil Aviation, Sanjoy said, “After making extensive aerial and ground surveys for the construction of Greenfield Airport at Tawang, feasibility reports were submitted to your Ministry for early sanction, which is still awaited”. Resenting the inordinate delay on sanctioning of the project, the MP from West Parliamentary Constituency under which Tawang falls, urged Patel to pursue the matter at the earliest.
“I have come to know that construction of the Greenfield Airport at Tawang had been deferred in 2008 by the Ministry of Civil Aviation. There are alleged reports of the Defence Ministry trying to skip the proposal in the pretext of the area falling within the periphery of 70 km of Indo-China border,” wrote the MP, while citing that Agartala Airport is hardly 1 km off Bangladesh border.
The MP, however, said that the government has been trying its best to provide infrastructure development including establishment of Greenfield Airport in Arunachal capital, Itanagar.
02/07/10 Assam Tribune

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Categories: Airports Jul 2010, New Jul 2010