Mumbai, December 28: “Creation of the infrastructure is given more emphasis in the state and such the road, water and air connectivity are being strengthened in order to connect all the parts of the state with Air traffic. The work of expansion of all the existing airports should be accelerated. The state government and the union government will be providing all possible assistance,” said Chief Minister Shri Devendra Fadnavis.
The meeting of the Board of Directors of the Maharashtra Airport Development Company was today held under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Shri Devendra Fadnavis at the Sahyadri guest house.
Chief Minister Shri Devendra Fadnavis said that there is a lot of scope in increasing the air connectivity in the state and so along with the Civil aviation schemes of the union government, emphasis should be given by utilizing the state funds for the development of Airports, their expansion, night landing facilities, increasing the length of runways, providing modern facilities to the air passengers and like facilities.
The Chief Minister also directed the Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation to initiate action for taking the airports of the state in their position from the position of Reliance. He also said that in order to decrease the load on the airports of cosmopolitan cities, the Maharashtra Airport Development Company should initiate action at the war footing.
The Chief Minister also reviewed the ongoing work of Airports at Ratnagiri, Shirdi, Amravati (Belora), Purandar, Karad, Chandrapur, (Morwa) Solapur, Dhule, Phaltan, Akola and Gadchiroli. The Chief Minister also took stock of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) related to 786.56 hectares of land for the GMR Nagpur International Airport under the Mihan region. He also directed to complete the MoU at the earliest.
Additional chief secretary of the transportation department Sanjay Sethi, additional chief secretary of the finance department O P Gupta, principal secretary of Urban Development Department Aseem Kumar Gupta, Vice Chairman and Managing Director of CIDCO Vijay Singhal, Managing Director of Maharashtra Airport Development Company Swati Pandey, secretary of industries department Anbalgam, chief executive officer of MIDC Vallarasu, District Magistrate of Nagpur Vipin Itankar and others were present on the occasion.
