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Airport a boon for 22 districts of North Bihar: Civil Aviation Minister
Darbhanga: The bookings for daily flights will start by end of September from Darbhanga to Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru, and flight operations will begin in the first week of November, before the auspicious festival of Chhath Puja.
“This a boon for 22 districts of North Bihar,” Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said after reviewing the groundwork of the Darbhanga airport on Saturday. Expressing satisfaction over the progress of work of Darbhanga airport, Puri said that most of the work at the airport was almost complete. He added that arrival and departure halls, check-in facility, conveyor belt had already been installed and remaining work would be completed before end October. Spicejet has already been awarded this route under RCS-UDAN, he informed. Flight calibration by Spicejet also took place today while the Minister was at the Darbhanga Airport.
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Also read: Darbhanga and Deoghar airports to be operational “soon”
Puri also reviewed the status of Deoghar airport in Jharkhand. He said the work at the Deogarh airport is at an advanced stage and will be completed on schedule and the airport would be operationalised very soon. He added that the Government would be taking some key decisions in this regard by next week.
Apart from providing aviation connectivity to the Santhal region, the airport in Deoghar which is strategically located to provide connectivity to Patna, Kolkata and Bagdogra will also be able to serve people from Bhagalpur and Jamui districts of Bihar.
– globalbihari bureau
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