Bareilly: Uttar Pradesh (UP) civil aviation minister Nand Gopal Nandi couldn’t refrain himself from bursting into laughter when asked to provide a date to start flights from Bareilly. The minister had no answer as the starting date for flights had been missed “twice”. Nandi has now cited the aviation sector slowdown for the indefinite delay.
The minister, while visiting Bareilly on Thursday, admitted that the slowdown has made service providers more hesitant to take up new projects and it led to the project missing its deadline “twice” to commence flights from Bareilly.
Nandi said that earlier this year Jet Airways had bagged the bid for Lucknow-Bareilly-Delhi route but things couldn’t materialise after the cash-strapped carrier failed to secure a bailout. Notably, last month, Union minister as well as local MP Santosh Gangwar has written to his Cabinet colleague, Union civil aviation minister Hardeep Puri, about the matter.
“Actually, Jet Airways had won the bids on most of the routes that were auctioned last year under the Centre’s regional connectivity scheme. Even the flights on certain new routes had been started but it was discontinued after Jet Airways planes were grounded. It is our commitment to connect all 18 commissionary towns with state capital and the country’s other important cities to make our Prime Minister’s Ude Desh Ka Aam Nagrik (UDAN) dream come true,” the minister said.
25/10/19 Pankul Sharma/Times of India
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The minister, while visiting Bareilly on Thursday, admitted that the slowdown has made service providers more hesitant to take up new projects and it led to the project missing its deadline “twice” to commence flights from Bareilly.
Nandi said that earlier this year Jet Airways had bagged the bid for Lucknow-Bareilly-Delhi route but things couldn’t materialise after the cash-strapped carrier failed to secure a bailout. Notably, last month, Union minister as well as local MP Santosh Gangwar has written to his Cabinet colleague, Union civil aviation minister Hardeep Puri, about the matter.
“Actually, Jet Airways had won the bids on most of the routes that were auctioned last year under the Centre’s regional connectivity scheme. Even the flights on certain new routes had been started but it was discontinued after Jet Airways planes were grounded. It is our commitment to connect all 18 commissionary towns with state capital and the country’s other important cities to make our Prime Minister’s Ude Desh Ka Aam Nagrik (UDAN) dream come true,” the minister said.
25/10/19 Pankul Sharma/Times of India
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