New Delhi: Two civil aviation ministers spent crores of rupees over construction of 23 airports during their stints. But all these airports non-operational with no scheduled operators to fly. They only prove useful for union ministers and other VVIPs for their personal use.
Praful Patel, who was civil aviation minister for over seven years, had approved five airports in his home state Maharashtra – one each in Gondia, Akola, Jalgaon, Sholapur and Kolhapur.
The current minister Ajit Singh too has given approval for nine such airports in his home state Uttar Pradesh. Singh said that these airports were approved after conducting a feasibility study.
Besides, 18 other such airports were built in the past ten years which so far have remained non-operational. They include Behara in West Bengal, Begumpet in Hyderabad, Kandla and Keshod in Gujarat, Kota, Jaisalmer and Bhatinda in Rajasthan, Pant Nagar in Uttarakhand, Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh, Lakhimpur and Tezpur in Assam, Pathankot and Bhatinda in Punjab, Salem in Tamil Nadu and Shimla in Himachal Pradesh.
Read News in full 03/02/14 Rohinee Singh/Daily News & Analysis
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