Itanagar: Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Nabam Tuki on Saturday expressed surprise at Governor J P Rajkhowa's letter to the Prime Minister urging him to reconsider the decision to build a green field airport at Hollongi in the state in view of its "high cost".
"It is completely against Arunachal Pradesh and its people," Tuki said reacting to the governor's letter in which he had asked the Prime Minister Narendra Modi to upgrade Lilabari airport in nearby Assam as it would be economically more viable.
"It is the Centre's decision to provide airport in every state capital on priority and that too we have no airport. I requested Civil Aviation Minister Pashupati Ashok Gajapati Raju during my last meeting to accelerate clearance and allot fund to resume the work soon.
"He has consented to provide fund in the revised estimates of the current Union Budget," Tuki told reporters here after the celebration of Rashtriya Sanklap Diwas on Saturday.
In reply to a question, Tuki said he would talk to the Governor as such a move would be an injustice to the people of the state.
31/10/15 PTI/Statesman
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"It is completely against Arunachal Pradesh and its people," Tuki said reacting to the governor's letter in which he had asked the Prime Minister Narendra Modi to upgrade Lilabari airport in nearby Assam as it would be economically more viable.
"It is the Centre's decision to provide airport in every state capital on priority and that too we have no airport. I requested Civil Aviation Minister Pashupati Ashok Gajapati Raju during my last meeting to accelerate clearance and allot fund to resume the work soon.
"He has consented to provide fund in the revised estimates of the current Union Budget," Tuki told reporters here after the celebration of Rashtriya Sanklap Diwas on Saturday.
In reply to a question, Tuki said he would talk to the Governor as such a move would be an injustice to the people of the state.
31/10/15 PTI/Statesman
