Direct flight between Delhi and Deoghar flagged-off
New Delhi: The Minister of Civil Aviation Shri Jyotiraditya M. Scindia and Minister of State for Civil Aviation (Gen)Dr V.K Singh (Retd) today virtually inaugurated the direct flight between Delhi and Deoghar by Indigo, which deploys its A320 Neo, a 180-seater twin turbofan engine passenger aircraft that is primarily used on Domestic routes.
Today’s flight was captained by former Union minister Rajiv Pratap Rudy. With this new flight launch, the total number of departures from Deoghar will be 11 daily departure flights.
Speaking on the occasion, Scindia said, “Baba Baidya Nath Dham in Deoghar is an international religious heritage, and it gives me immense pleasure to state that my ministry has helped millions of pilgrims to visit Deoghar.”
Along with the country’s hard economic power, Scindia stressed the need to dovetail the country’s soft power and said that is the reason why major aviation infrastructure is created at places such as Ayodhya International Airport, Kushinagar International Airport and now Deoghar Airport.
“I would also like to congratulate Indigo for connecting smaller cities in the country and the day is not far when Civil Aviation will become the primary source of travelling in India,” he said.
It was on July 12, 2022, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that Deoghar will be connected with Delhi.
The minister further said that the Deoghar Airport, which is spread over 655 acres, was constructed at a cost of Rs. 400 crores, making it the second airport in Jharkhand after Ranchi.
“We are also working on 3 more airports in Jharkhand – Bokaro, Jamshedpur and Dumka taking the total number of airports in Jharkhand to 5,” he said. He added: “We have announced 14 new routes connecting Jharkhand out of which 2 routes – Deoghar – Kolkata and Delhi – Deoghar have been started and in the coming days, we will connect Deoghar with Ranchi and Patna. Along with this, we will connect Dumka with Ranchi and Kolkata. Bokaro airport once completed will be connected with Patna and Kolkata.”
So far 425 routes and 68 airports, heliports, and water drome have been operationalized under the UDAN scheme and more than 1 crore people, mostly first-time flyers, have benefitted from it, the Minister said. He informed that over 1 lakh 90 thousand flights have flown under this scheme and the Ministry of Civil Aviation has constructed 66 airports in the last 8 years which stood at 74 airports in the year 2014. “We are planning to construct 220 new airports which include Water Dromes and Heliports in the next 5 years,” he said.
Minister of State for Civil Aviation General Dr V.K Singh (Retd) hoped that other airlines will adopt the same route for more flights to Deoghar.
The commercial flight between Deoghar and Delhi will be operated by IndiGo as per the following schedule.
– global bihari bureau
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