Lucknow: After two-and-a-half-years of deadlock — first with the UPA regime and now with the NDA government — over construction of the Taj International Airport in western Uttar Pradesh, the state government is preparing to pitch for CM Akhilesh Yadav’s native place Saifai as one of the three new options where the airport can come up.
The three new options being proposed are Saifai in Etawah, Hirangaon in Firozabad and Bateshwar in Agra. Sources said Akhilesh has floated the idea based on the argument that it will be easier to get clearance to upgrade an existing airstrip — like the one present in Safai — into an international airport.
Sources added that as the sites proposed by RITES — consultant to the state government — could not get sanction in the last two years, the government will now prepare a fresh proposal to be placed before the Civil Aviation Ministry.
24/04/15 Maulshree Seth/Indian Express
To Read the News in full at Source, Click the Headline
The three new options being proposed are Saifai in Etawah, Hirangaon in Firozabad and Bateshwar in Agra. Sources said Akhilesh has floated the idea based on the argument that it will be easier to get clearance to upgrade an existing airstrip — like the one present in Safai — into an international airport.
Sources added that as the sites proposed by RITES — consultant to the state government — could not get sanction in the last two years, the government will now prepare a fresh proposal to be placed before the Civil Aviation Ministry.
24/04/15 Maulshree Seth/Indian Express
