Dehradun airport needs face-lift

Dehradun : The airport at Jollygrant about 25 kms from the city and the only one in Uttarakhand where big planes can land, may have solved the problems of those wanting to make a quick trip to Delhi, but it leaves much to be desired as far as facilities for those who have come to see off their nears and dears.
Under the operation of the Airport Authority of India, it has undergone a sea change from the days of yore, when one could walk through the barbed wires that made the fencing and on to the runways.
However, then it had just one flight coming in, and was mostly used by the high profile swamis and godmen coming in their private planes to the adjoining holy city of Rishikesh, where they have their ashrams.
In fact, when the airport was not even made, the then much hyped swami, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who is better known for having publicized transcendental meditation and was also visited by the likes of the once most popular group, Beatles and also Mia Farrow, used to come to Rishikesh, where he had an ashram spreading over acres of land in an amphibian plane, which landed on the Ganga.
21/12/11 Jagdish Bhatt/Hill Post

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Categories: airports Dec 2011