Central team to study Patna airport condition

Patna: A team of Union civil aviation ministry will visit Jaiprakash Narayan International Airport, Patna, to see the prevailing condition and review the implementation of safety advice and guidelines issued by the ministry and DGCA. This was conveyed to chief minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday by the civil aviation minister Ajit Singh amid the controversy over the likely suspension of big aircraft operation from the airport.
Nitish said he invited Singh to come and himself see the situation as well as the compliance of the conditions put forth by the ministry, the DGCA and Airports Authority of India (AAI), including the pruning of trees at Sanjay Gandhi Biological Park. Singh told him that a central team would visit Patna soon, he said.
09/08/12 Faizan Ahmad/Times of India

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Categories: airports Aug 2012