Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir government might be hesitant in ensuring that the Srinagar “International” Airport is renamed as the Sheikh-ul-Alam (RA) International Airport, as had been proposed years back, but in official parlance of the Ministry of Civil Aviation, the aerodrome is already named after the 14th century Muslim saint.
The website of the Civil Aviation Ministry refers to the airport as the Sheikh-ul-Alam Airport, though the name is missing on ground. Even the famed Search Engine, Google, has a number of links which name the aerodrome after
The Civil Aviation Ministry’s website mentions the name of the saint in its “Domestic Airports in India” section, on the following link: http://civilaviation.nic.in/domesticairportlist.html.
Three years back, the coalition government led by PDP had mooted the proposal of re-christening the airport after Hazrat Sheikh Noor-ud-din Noorani (RA), also known as Sheikh-ul-Alam (RA).
While the proposal is lying with the Civil Aviation ministry since then, the state government has failed to take up the issue with New Delhi.
19/03/11 Faheem Aslam/Greater Kashmir
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