Lucknow: Union civil aviation minister Ajit Singh today urged Uttar Pradesh to handover Meerut airstrip and an additional 427 acres to the Airports Authority of India (AAI) for development.
AAI had proposed development of Partapur airport at Meerut, to provide better air connectivity in western parts of UP, which had already been assessed for up-gradation to cater civil schedule operations.
In this regard, AAI chairman had forwarded a master plan to the state government on April 26, 2012 seeking transfer of the airstrip and additional land free of cost and free from all encumbrances. Later, Singh also wrote letters to the state in May and October.
In his fresh letter to UP chief minister Akhilesh Yadav, the union minister reiterated that normally states transferred land to AAI free of cost and impediments.
16/11/12 Virendra Singh Rawat/Business Standard
