On Wednesday (November 2), Union Cupboard headed via Top Minister Narendra Modi licensed the naming of Greenfield Airport at Hollongi, in Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh as Donyi Polo Airport.
The Airports Authority of India (AAI) is growing a greenfield airport in Itanagar with assistance from the Centre and the state govt at an expense of Rs 646 crore.
The Cupboard, chaired via Top Minister Narendra Modi, licensed the naming of the greenfield airport as ‘Donyi Polo Airport, Itanagar,’ in line with an respectable free up.
The Arunachal Pradesh govt handed a solution naming the airport ‘Donyi Polo Airport, Itanagar.’ It displays the folk’s reverence for the Solar (Donyi) and the Moon (Polo) to represent the state’s traditions and wealthy cultural heritage,’ in line with the clicking free up.
Modi govt’s determination to call the airport Donyi Polo after the non secular and cultural heritage of Arunachal Pradesh will by no means move smartly with the left-liberal ecosystem which has all the time blamed the Modi govt for honouring indigenous traditions and local sentiments.
Curiously, Arunachal Pradesh’s native media has already been the usage of the Donyi Polo identify ever for the reason that proposal for its naming got here up for attention.
Union Minister Nitin Gadkari took to Twitter to tell concerning the naming of Donyi Polo Airport. “In opposition to the Growth of North East India. As of late’s Cupboard chaired via PM Shri @/narendramodi Ji licensed the naming of the Greenfield Airport at Hollongi, Itanagar, in Arunachal Pradesh as Donyi Polo Airport, Itanagar,” he tweeted.
In every other Tweet he wrote, “Symbolising the traditions and wealthy cultural heritage of the State, the identify displays the Arunachal other folks’s reverence of the Solar (Donyi) and the Moon (Polo).”
Symbolizing the traditions and wealthy cultural heritage of the State, the identify displays the Arunachal other folks’s reverence of the Solar (Donyi) and the Moon (Polo).#CabinetDecisions
— Nitin Gadkari (@nitin_gadkari) November 2, 2022
In January 2019, the central govt accorded ‘in-principle‘ acclaim for the improvement of the Greenfield Airport.
The greenfield airport, with a 2,300-metre runway, will be the first in Arunachal Pradesh to be able to touchdown large airplane. The airport which is the state’s 3rd after Pasighat and Tezu covers a space of four,100 sq. meters. Donyi Polo is the sixteenth airport in northeast India.
Particularly, the AAI undertook the airport building undertaking to strengthen air connectivity within the mountainous state because the airport holds strategic importance. IndiGo’s Airbus A320 effectively finished a check touchdown at Donyi Polo airport. All the way through top hours, the Donyi Polo airport, which has 8 check-in counters, can accommodate as much as 200 passengers.
The Executive of India devised a Greenfield Airports Coverage in 2008, which outlines the tips, procedures, and prerequisites for the status quo of latest Greenfield Airports within the nation. The Executive of India has given ‘in-principle’ acclaim for the status quo of 21 Greenfield Airports around the nation beneath the Greenfield Airports Coverage. As of now, there are 15 operational airports within the northeastern area which can be Guwahati, Silchar, Dibrugarh, Jorhat, Tezpur, Lilalabari, and Rupsi (Assam), Tezu and Pasighat (Arunachal Pradesh), Agartala (Tripura), Imphal (Manipur), Shillong (Meghalaya), Dimapur (Nagaland), Lengpui (Mizoram) and Pakyong (Sikkim).