Bangalore: The weekend celebrations began at the Aero India 2015 with the Defence Exhibitions Organisation expecting well over two lakh public visitors at the Air Display Viewing Area (ADVA) and the main operational area on the two public days (February 21 and 22). But for the Ministry of Defence (MoD) these two days would be the most crucial in arriving at a decision on whether to shift the venue of the Aero India from the present Air Force Station Yelahanka (AFSY) in Bengaluru to elsewhere.
The infrastructure inside and outside the air base are being tested to the limits - which officials say have already been crossed.
The Aero India, which is in its tenth edition, has been held in Bengaluru since 1996; and every edition has been significantly larger than the previous one - up till now.
The five-day air show is structured in a way that the first three days are business days, followed by two public days on Saturdays and Sundays. Business days generally witness lesser number of visitors because mainly the visitors are business category visitors. But this time, Friday, the last business day, saw surging crowds arriving at the air base as business visitors.Going by that, the DEO, which organises the Aero India shows, is expecting much larger crowds on Saturday and Sunday. Until Saturday afternoon, traffic jams persisted till the Yelahanka by-pass.
DEO admits that AFSY will find it difficult to handle the next edition because the air base is a "very peculiar" one. "The Air Force Station Yelahanka is a peculiar air base," said DEO director, Wg Cdr MD Singh while describing that the access routes to the base gave the AFSY its peculiarity which caused huge crowds and put pressure on the civil police and the AFSY's infrastructure.
22/02/15 Nirad Mudur/Bangalore Mirror
The infrastructure inside and outside the air base are being tested to the limits - which officials say have already been crossed.
The Aero India, which is in its tenth edition, has been held in Bengaluru since 1996; and every edition has been significantly larger than the previous one - up till now.
The five-day air show is structured in a way that the first three days are business days, followed by two public days on Saturdays and Sundays. Business days generally witness lesser number of visitors because mainly the visitors are business category visitors. But this time, Friday, the last business day, saw surging crowds arriving at the air base as business visitors.Going by that, the DEO, which organises the Aero India shows, is expecting much larger crowds on Saturday and Sunday. Until Saturday afternoon, traffic jams persisted till the Yelahanka by-pass.
DEO admits that AFSY will find it difficult to handle the next edition because the air base is a "very peculiar" one. "The Air Force Station Yelahanka is a peculiar air base," said DEO director, Wg Cdr MD Singh while describing that the access routes to the base gave the AFSY its peculiarity which caused huge crowds and put pressure on the civil police and the AFSY's infrastructure.
22/02/15 Nirad Mudur/Bangalore Mirror
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