Agartala: Tripura on Tuesday requested the central government to reconsider the decision to withdraw ATR—50 aircraft services of Air India in the northeast, which remains isolated from the rest of the world due to poor connectivity.
“Due to poor railway connectivity and geography of the region, the people of most of the north-eastern states have to depend on air travel to go to other parts of the country,” Tripura Transport Secretary Kishore Ambuly said in a letter to the civil aviation ministry.
Many small ATR aircraft with 50 seats have been operating in the region, connecting capital cities of the north-eastern states with Kolkata. The civil aviation ministry has, however, decided to withdraw the service from Tuesday.
01/01/12 IANS/The Hindu
