Itanagar: Arunachal Pradesh has claimed that the Union Civil Aviation Ministry had deprived the North Eastern state, in terms of development, by diverting a 72-seater ATR aircraft meant for the region to Bengaluru.
The ministry has recently procured five such aircraft for Alliance Air, a subsidiary of Air India, out of which one was meant for the North East.
The ministry had reportedly diverted the aircraft to Bengaluru depriving the region, Arunachal Pradesh Chief Secretary Ramesh Negi said here yesterday.
Negi raised the issue before the team of Rajya Sabha Assurance Committee led by its Chairman Hussain Dalwai, who was in the state capital on a two-day visit beginning October 7.
The chairman, however, assured him to take up the issue with the concerned authorities.
09/10/15 PTI/Business Standard
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The ministry has recently procured five such aircraft for Alliance Air, a subsidiary of Air India, out of which one was meant for the North East.
The ministry had reportedly diverted the aircraft to Bengaluru depriving the region, Arunachal Pradesh Chief Secretary Ramesh Negi said here yesterday.
Negi raised the issue before the team of Rajya Sabha Assurance Committee led by its Chairman Hussain Dalwai, who was in the state capital on a two-day visit beginning October 7.
The chairman, however, assured him to take up the issue with the concerned authorities.
09/10/15 PTI/Business Standard
