2 months ago
1
Leader of Opposition R. Ashok connected Tuesday alleged successful the Legislative Assembly that the ruling Congress authorities is readying to unopen down Bengaluru’s lone Government Flying Training School (GFTS) astatine Jakkur to make an exclusive nine for MPs, legislators, and elder bureaucrats.
Participating successful a statement connected Bengaluru’s development, helium claimed that a elder IAS serviceman had projected the thought of converting the GFTS onshore into an enforcement nine successful consultation with a developer from Rajasthan. He further alleged that specified a determination could pave the mode for existent property interests to conception high-rise buildings successful the area.
Mr. Ashok noted that the aviation grooming schoolhouse was established connected 214 acres of onshore successful Jakkur successful 1950, primitively granted by the erstwhile Mysore rulers, with the instauration chromatic laid by erstwhile Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. He added that a akin connection during an earlier Congress authorities had been scrapped by the BJP authorities but was present being revived, with discussions reportedly nether mode to displacement the schoolhouse to Mysuru.
During the discussion, Energy Minister K.J. George said helium had written to Chief Minister Siddaramaiah suggesting that the GFTS onshore could alternatively beryllium utilized to make a large sports complex, akin to the Narendra Modi Stadium successful Ahmedabad.
Mr. Ashok besides cited past remarks by Revenue Minister Krishna Byre Gowda, who had earlier opposed the thought of utilizing the GFTS onshore for an enforcement club.
