A five member team of airport authority of India completed its two day long visit of Hazaribagh on Wednesday. Captain SP Sinha was the leader of this team. The team members inspected Nagwa air strip situated in the headquarter of North Chotanagpur division yesterday and today they talked with the district officials in local circuit house to find out the possibility of starting air passenger service from Hazaribagh.
Before leaving Hazaribagh the team leader talked with some local media men at circuit house and said that the purpose of their visit is to prepare a survey report and possibility of starting air passenger service from Hazaribagh under the regional connectivity scheme of civil aviation department.
Captain Sinha said that the present Central Government is keen to connect small towns of the country with air passenger service and for it regional connectivity scheme has been launched. He said that our team has already made a meeting with CM Raghuvar Das who is also interested in this scheme.
When asked about the findings of their visit, inspection and talks Captain Sinha said that Hazaribagh posses better possibility of development and the place of air strip here gives an added advantage to this town because it is very near to the main town. He said that they will submit their report in which their recommendation will also be included to the Government.
With this visit of a high level team of Airport Authority of India now the denizens of Hazaribagh have started smelling a new gift for this town by their MP Jayant Sinha who is fortunately MoS in civil aviation ministry presently.