Top Minister Narendra Modi can be inaugurating the much-awaited Donyi Polo Airport in Arunachal Pradesh’s Itanagar the next day (November 19). This airport will write historical past for Arunachal Pradesh’s aviation sector as it is going to be the primary greenfield airport within the northeastern states. The Donyi Polo airport is situated at Hollongi and when it turns into operational it is going to spice up connectivity, business, and tourism within the hilly northeastern state. PM Modi will inaugurate the greenfield airport at 9.30 am on Saturday and go away for Varanasi and Gujarat from there. The governor, who has been tracking the development of the airport since its basis laying rite, stated that it is likely one of the easiest items to the folk of the state via Modi.
Right here’s all you want to understand in regards to the to-be-inaugurated Donyi Polo Airport
Price of the Donyi Polo Airport
The Donyi Polo airport has been evolved via the Airports Authority of India at an estimated price of Rs 645 crore. It’ll have 8 check-in counters and will accommodate 200 passengers all over top hours, the officers stated.
There is not any airport in Arunachal Pradesh, the rustic’s easternmost state. The nearest facility is at Lilabari airport, 80 km away in Assam’s North Lakhimpur district.
Amenities and lines of the Donyi Polo Airport
Unfold over a 4,100 sq m space, Donyi Polo airport can be provided with all fashionable amenities for passengers. It’ll have a 2,300 meter-long runway appropriate for touchdown and take-off of Boeing 747, the officers stated. The airport terminal construction has a passenger living room, airside amenities, and the general public assembly venue. There are a couple of complex touchdown grounds within the state, together with in Pasighat and Tezu.
Flight services and products on the Donyi Polo airport
IndiGo Airways will begin business flights from the airport on November 28. The naming of the airport displays the reverence of the indigenous folks of Arunachal for the solar (Donyi) and the moon (Polo). Flights connecting Hollongi, which is round 15 km from Itanagar, with Mumbai and Kolkata will function day by day barring Wednesday. A weekly flight provider connecting Hollongi with Kolkata on Wednesdays will start on December 3, the executive technique and earnings officer of IndiGo, Sanjay Kumar had stated lately.
That is in keeping with the provider’s imaginative and prescient to improve connectivity within the Northeast and the flights are designed to cater to industry and recreational travellers who’re continuously searching for new and inexpensive flying choices to get entry to locations which can be recognized for his or her vacationer sights, he stated.
But even so IndiGo, Flybig airways have additionally expressed passion in beginning flight services and products from Donyi Polo airport, AAI Normal Supervisor Dilip Kumar Sajnani stated.