Former Union Minister and ex-city MP Pawan Kumar Bansal on Wednesday demanded setting up of a Flying Club at Chandigarh Airport.
"Chandigarh needs a modern flying club to train youngsters to enable them get decent placements as pilots in expanding aviation sector. The Rs 78 crore airport terminal completed only in 2011 and lying shut since 2015 and other existing in fractural facilities can be best used for this purpose" Bansal said in a statement.
In a letter to the Prime Minister on February 6, Bansal, while requesting for a direct connectivity between Chandigarh and terminal at Mohali through a short tunnel under the runway had rued that the modern terminal building at Chandigarh was lying shut since 2015.
He also demanded the naming of Chandigarh airport as "Shaheed Bhagat Singh International Airport Chandigarh". Bansal said that this is long overdue and the government should do it immediately.