Resume flights from Adampur by March-end, orders Bhagwant Mann
Chandigarh, January 14
Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Saturday directed officers involved to make sure that home flights from Adampur (Jalandhar) airport are resumed by the tip of March this yr.
Chairing a evaluate assembly of the Civil Aviation Division right here as we speak, the Chief Minister bemoaned that the stopping of flights from the airport had prompted loads of inconvenience to the folks of the area, particularly the NRIs.
The CM stated the resumption of flights from the airport would supply direct air connectivity to the area with the remainder of the globe. He stated in addition to saving time, cash and power of the folks from the area, the airport would additionally enhance the financial growth of the area on the whole and Jalandhar metropolis specifically. Mann stated medical tourism and industrial growth within the media capital of the state would additionally get a push.
Dwelling on one other agenda, the CM directed the officers to finish the continued work for development of civil air terminal at Halwara inside three months. He stated the federal government had already launched Rs 50 crore for the early completion of the work.
He bemoaned the truth that the work on this formidable challenge had been hanging in hearth for the previous couple of months. Mann stated that after assuming the cost of workplace, his authorities had put the work on this challenge in fast-track mode. He additionally requested the PWD to finish the development of method roads to those airports on the earliest.