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Haryana CM seeks nod for Bahadurgarh airport

EAW Staff

The Haryana chief minister, Bhupinder Singh Hooda urged the Centre to sanction an international airport at Bahadurgarh in the Jhajjar district in Haryana. Speaking at the 30th meeting of the National Capital Region Planning Board at New Delhi, he said that the aviation sector had witnessed a phenomenal growth in the last few years and pointed out that in spite of the upgradation of the Indira Gandhi International Airport, it would fall short of the future requirements of the NCR. "There is a definite need to have an additional airport in the vicinity of Delhi," he said. He said that the state government had submitted a proposal for an airport at Bahadurgarh in Jhajjar district, which will have excellent connectivity with Delhi and other areas of NCR via the KMP Expressway. He urged the Board to perform the requisite homework before approaching the ministry of civil aviation for early sanction of the project.

Hooda stressed the need to speed up work on various roads and rail conncectivity between Delhi and NCR towns. He also asked the new road links, namely Northern Peripheral Road with 150 metres right of way along sector 110 and 111 in Gurgaon to be extended up to Bijwasan-Najafgarh road in Delhi and meeting the proposed junction at Dwarka.