Dimapur: The Chief Minister’s Secretariat has issued a clarification over what it termed as “certain unfounded allegations and misplaced information that the State Government is not doing anything related to the problems being faced by the State in the aviation sector and the prevalence of poor air services in Nagaland”. “The fact is that the Chief Minister and the State Government has repeatedly taken up the multiple air connectivity problems being faced by the State with the Government of India and the Ministry of Civil Aviation. On many occasions the State Government has called upon the Government of India and the Civil Aviation Ministry to intervene and improve air connectivity in Nagaland”, stated a press note issued by from the CM’s office. Apart from writing letters to the Centre and the Ministry, the Chief Minister has also highlighted the problems of the State in this sector at various forums and in meetings with the Prime Minister and the Union Civil Aviation Minister, it was further informed. Some of the recent actions taken by the State Government are firstly, on 22nd March, 2006, the Chief Minister in a follow-up letter to the Union Civil Aviation Minister, Praful Patel, highlighted the plight of the State that the State capital is not connected by air.
Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio in his letter mentioned the urgent need of an airport at Kohima and urged upon the Ministry to expedite the matter.
On 25th June, 2009, Chief Minister Rio in an aide memoir to the Union Civil Aviation Minister called for improving air-connectivity in Dimapur. Rio reminded the Minister on an earlier request to introduce daily Airbus service connecting Dimapur to the national capital New Delhi touching Guwahati and vice versa. In the same aide memoir, Rio reminded the ministry to expedite the Greenfield Airport at Chiethu, Kohima while assuring the Centre that the State Government would provide Land free of cost, Power supply to the airport, Water supply to the airport and that Royalty would not be charged for any rock and earth from the excavation site and the same may be used for earth filling and other construction works.
22/06/11 Morung Express
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