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The Union Government volition let the functioning of 2 oregon much airports successful large cities successful presumption of accrued aerial rider postulation crossed the country, Union Minister for Civil Aviation Kinjarapu Rammohan Naidu has said.
“The Centre volition reappraisal the existing argumentation that bars the functioning of 2 airports wrong 150 km radius,” Mr. Rammohan Naidu said aft the palmy archetypal trial formation astatine the Alluri Sitharama Raju International Airport astatine Bhogapuram successful Vizianagaram territory connected January 4, 2026 (Sunday).
Replying to a query, the Union Minister said the authorities was already taking steps for the operation of caller airports successful Mumbai, Ghaziabad successful Uttar Pradesh (located astir 42-km from New Delhi), Bengaluru, Parandur successful Chennai and different cities.
“The authorities volition judge the proposals for caller airports erstwhile the existing airports scope saturation levels,” helium said.
The Union Government was according apical precedence to the aviation assemblage by promoting caller airports, on with the Maintenance, Repairs and Overhaul (MRO) facilities, to spur economical enactment and guarantee nonstop and indirect employment to many, Mr. Rammohan Naidu said.
Recalling the occurrence communicative of the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport astatine Shamshabad successful Telangana that had been established successful 5,000 acres, the Union Minister credited the installation to the inaugural taken by N. Chandrababu Naidu erstwhile helium was Chief Minister of the unified State betwixt 1995 and 2003.
He said the authorities would accord adjacent precedence to the improvement of aggregate entree roads to each the airports arsenic they, too, would indirectly spur economical enactment and concern progress.
Expressing assurance that the Bhogapuram airdrome would service arsenic a almighty maturation motor that would make employment opportunities locally, Mr. Rammohan Naidu said, “The airdrome volition fortify trade, boost exports and unlock the immense tourism imaginable of Andhra Pradesh.”
Andhra Pradesh Minister for MSMEs Kondapalli Srinivas and GMR Group-Airports Business Chairman G.B.S. Raju exuded assurance that the North Andhra portion would witnesser accelerated maturation with the improvement of the caller planetary airdrome astatine Bhogapuram.
