Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Friday held a series of meetings with the senior leaders of the SAD-BJP, including the Cabinet Ministers, Chief Parliamentary Secretaries, MlAs besides the officers of the State Government to finalise the arrangements for the inauguration of the international airport on September 11.
Badal exhorted the leaders of SAD-BJP and the top brass of the Government to ensure huge participation of the people from different walks of life on this historic event.
Badal said that “with the opening of international airport at Mohali, Punjab has scripted a new chapter of its unending success story”.
He pointed out that the international air connectivity from Mohali was all the more important because it would connect the entire northern region comprising Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Uttrakhand and even the western part of Uttar Pradesh with the rest of the world.
Chief Minister said that in the absence of this international airport, daily a large number of passengers from the northern states were left with no other option but to travel Delhi for boarding international flights, which not only caused undue harassment to them but also resulted in huge wastage of time, money and energy. “The inauguration of this airport would facilitate the people of the region, especially from Punjab, besides wooing the leading entrepreneurs across the world to make huge investments in the state,” said Badal.
He envisioned this airport as a catalyst to propel industrialisation in the state besides showcasing Punjab as the most preferred investment destination. “This is really a momentous occasion for the Punjabis as the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other dignitaries would participate in this function, thus all of us should strive hard to make it a gala event,” he added.
Chief Minister deputed the State Education Minister and SAD secretary Daljit Singh Cheema and his Advisor Tikshan Sud to overall supervise the arrangements and logistics for organising this mega event.