Agartala: Minister of State for Civil Aviation Jayant Sinha has said that the Centre is keen to renovate several unused airports, built during the World War II, across the north-eastern states to improve the regional connectivity.
Sinha, who was here on a one-day visit, had a long discussion with Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar on Tuesday to work towards improving the Agartala airport into an international airport with an investment of Rs. 400 crores.
"There are large numbers of airports in the northeast which were built during the World War II that are not being used. So, now what we plan to do with these 50 airports is to go rehabilitates many of these airports that are in a state of disrepair right now and build them up so that they can be used for regional connectivity," Sinha told a press conference.
Stating that the people of this region take a long time to go from one place to another through the hilly terrain, he added, "It will be a great-great service because they will be able to go from one point to another point very conveniently in 40 minutes to one hour time."
Sinha, however, informed that the government is at present emphasising on reconditioning the unused airports in the region and not working towards constructing of innovative highway-cum-runway in the northeastern region, where the national highways may also be used as airstrips as and when required, and as proposed by the Ministry of Highways.
One such airport, which will be renovated under this project, is the Kailasahar airport in North Tripura, he informed.
31/08/16 ANI/Business Standard
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Sinha, who was here on a one-day visit, had a long discussion with Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar on Tuesday to work towards improving the Agartala airport into an international airport with an investment of Rs. 400 crores.
"There are large numbers of airports in the northeast which were built during the World War II that are not being used. So, now what we plan to do with these 50 airports is to go rehabilitates many of these airports that are in a state of disrepair right now and build them up so that they can be used for regional connectivity," Sinha told a press conference.
Stating that the people of this region take a long time to go from one place to another through the hilly terrain, he added, "It will be a great-great service because they will be able to go from one point to another point very conveniently in 40 minutes to one hour time."
Sinha, however, informed that the government is at present emphasising on reconditioning the unused airports in the region and not working towards constructing of innovative highway-cum-runway in the northeastern region, where the national highways may also be used as airstrips as and when required, and as proposed by the Ministry of Highways.
One such airport, which will be renovated under this project, is the Kailasahar airport in North Tripura, he informed.
31/08/16 ANI/Business Standard
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