Dimapur: As is the case with most of the (few) major development projects to have landed in Nagaland, the recently approved Chiethu Greenfield Airport at Kohima also comes bearing the fingerprints of Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the 11th Prime Minister of India.
It was after he took residence at 7 Race Course Road that Vajpayee delivered the Cheithu Greenfield Airport project as a political commitment to the state of Nagaland. In infrastructure, greenfield means new projects or activities on unused land. On the other hand, brownfield projects refer to upgrade or change to an existing one.
On July 26 last, the lone representative to the Lok Sabha from Nagaland, Neiphiu Rio had written to Prime Minister, Modi expressing “deepest appreciation to government of India for approving the development of Chiethu Greenfield Airport in Kohima”.
It has taken the fourth Prime Minister after Vajpayee to turn that political commitment into the hard currency of development. The intervening years have been mischievous, to say the least. The Chiethu Greenfield Airport project ran into roadblock in the initial years, soon after New Delhi had approved the setting up of a greenfield airport at Kohima. In 2013, the government of India decided that the location of Cheithu Greenfield Airport had many disadvantages.
10/08/16 Eastern Mirror
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It was after he took residence at 7 Race Course Road that Vajpayee delivered the Cheithu Greenfield Airport project as a political commitment to the state of Nagaland. In infrastructure, greenfield means new projects or activities on unused land. On the other hand, brownfield projects refer to upgrade or change to an existing one.
On July 26 last, the lone representative to the Lok Sabha from Nagaland, Neiphiu Rio had written to Prime Minister, Modi expressing “deepest appreciation to government of India for approving the development of Chiethu Greenfield Airport in Kohima”.
It has taken the fourth Prime Minister after Vajpayee to turn that political commitment into the hard currency of development. The intervening years have been mischievous, to say the least. The Chiethu Greenfield Airport project ran into roadblock in the initial years, soon after New Delhi had approved the setting up of a greenfield airport at Kohima. In 2013, the government of India decided that the location of Cheithu Greenfield Airport had many disadvantages.
10/08/16 Eastern Mirror
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