New airport to be set up in Kailashahar Tripura CM
Agartala Mar 26 PTI A new airport would be coming up at Kailashahar the headquarters of Unakoti district in Tripura to boost air connectivity Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb said on SaturdayThe state government will provide 500 acres of land in Hiracherra tea estate to build the new airport at Kailashahar about 140 km from here at an estimated cost of Rs 500 to Rs 700 crore he saidDeb was speaking at a programme of the Indian Medical Association IMA hereA Memorandum of Understanding will be signed with the Central government to hand over land for the new airport in place of the abandoned airport the chief minister saidOnce the land is transferred Prime Minister Narendra Modi will give another airport to the people of the state he said The area of the abandoned Kailashahar airport is very small and there is hardly any scope for expansion of the runway and other facilities Deb saidThe old airport located near the Indo-Bangla border has been shut down since the early 90s on account of a lack of adequate passengersHighlighting the development in air connectivity in the state over the past four years the chief minister said there was a time when people had to stay overnight in Kolkata to reach DelhiBut the scenario has completely changed now as one can reach Delhi within two hours and 20 minutes Tripura is connected by air with big cities like Bangalore Hyderabad Chennai Kolkata apart from Guwahati and Imphal he saidDeb also mentioned the states strategic location with Bangladesh and other Southeast Asian nationsPointing out that Sabroom will become a prominent industrial belt in the future the chief minister said with Maitri Setu friendship bridge constructed over river Feni between Sabroom in South Tripura district and Ramgarh in Bangladesh a Special Economic Zone all set to be created and an Integrated Check Post to be set up in the border town one can easily imagine how much the trade volume will become at Sabroom in the days to comeDeb added the state has witnessed a major change as far as connectivity is concerned be it rail national highways waterways or airwaysThe Ministry of Shipping has already sanctioned Rs 25 crore for setting up 10 jetties from Udaipur to Sonamura and undertaking dredging in the river Gomati to operationalise the Indo-Bangla waterway project he said PTI PS MM MM
Agartala Mar 26 PTI A new airport would be coming up at Kailashahar the headquarters of Unakoti district in Tripura to boost air connectivity Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb said on SaturdayThe state government will provide 500 acres of land in Hiracherra tea estate to build the new airport at Kailashahar about 140 km from here at an estimated cost of Rs 500 to Rs 700 crore he saidDeb was speaking at a programme of the Indian Medical Association IMA hereA Memorandum of Understanding will be signed with the Central government to hand over land for the new airport in place of the abandoned airport the chief minister saidOnce the land is transferred Prime Minister Narendra Modi will give another airport to the people of the state he said The area of the abandoned Kailashahar airport is very small and there is hardly any scope for expansion of the runway and other facilities Deb saidThe old airport located near the Indo-Bangla border has been shut down since the early 90s on account of a lack of adequate passengersHighlighting the development in air connectivity in the state over the past four years the chief minister said there was a time when people had to stay overnight in Kolkata to reach DelhiBut the scenario has completely changed now as one can reach Delhi within two hours and 20 minutes Tripura is connected by air with big cities like Bangalore Hyderabad Chennai Kolkata apart from Guwahati and Imphal he saidDeb also mentioned the states strategic location with Bangladesh and other Southeast Asian nationsPointing out that Sabroom will become a prominent industrial belt in the future the chief minister said with Maitri Setu friendship bridge constructed over river Feni between Sabroom in South Tripura district and Ramgarh in Bangladesh a Special Economic Zone all set to be created and an Integrated Check Post to be set up in the border town one can easily imagine how much the trade volume will become at Sabroom in the days to comeDeb added the state has witnessed a major change as far as connectivity is concerned be it rail national highways waterways or airwaysThe Ministry of Shipping has already sanctioned Rs 25 crore for setting up 10 jetties from Udaipur to Sonamura and undertaking dredging in the river Gomati to operationalise the Indo-Bangla waterway project he said PTI PS MM MM
