Nitish Kumar slams AAI on 'irresponsible' statements

New Delhi: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar slammed Airport Authority of India(AAI) today for its 'irresponsible' statements threatening to close down Jai Prakash Narayan International Airport here apparently on safety concerns there.
''The AAI officials should know that the operations of flights at an airport and related matters are the responsibility of the Centre and not of the state government,'' he told reporters here.
The state government had on its own trimmed trees around the airport, including at the Sanjay Gandhi Biological Park, to make flight operations safe. ''But it appears that AAI wants to cut all the trees to satisfy its 'whims'.
11/06/12 Financial Express

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Categories: airports Jun 2012