Union Ministers flag off first Delhi-Dharamshala flight
The Hindu
The first IndiGo airlines’ Delhi-Dharamshala-Delhi flight was flagged off on March 26, 2023 by the Union Ministers Anurag Thakur, Jyotiraditya Scindia, and General (Retd.) V.K. Singh.
The first IndiGo airlines’ Delhi-Dharamshala-Delhi flight was flagged off on Sunday by the Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting Anurag Thakur, Union Minister for Civil Aviation Jyotiraditya Scindia, and Union Minister of State for Civil Aviation General (Retd.) V.K. Singh.
Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Thakur expressed his gratitude to the Ministry of Civil Aviation for facilitating IndiGo connectivity to Himachal Pradesh.
Mr. Thakur made a case for a larger airport and said that, currently, passengers visiting Himachal Pradesh from all over India have to go to Delhi and then board connecting flights to the State. A larger airport would provide direct seamless connectivity to passengers.
He credited Prime Minister Narendra Modi with the rapid expansion of airport infrastructure in the country and said the number of airports had gone from 74 to over 140 in a short span of time. He said that owing to the UDAN scheme, flying had become affordable for the general public.
Mr. Thakur said the Dharamshala airport connected five districts, directly benefiting half of the State’s population. “This single IndiGo flight goes a long way in connecting half of the State and a few places in Punjab to the rest of the country,” he said.
General Singh said the Dharamshala airport had seen its first flight in 1990, and subsequently saw its operations expanding, and now had a runway of 1,376 m. He said the runway could be further lengthened, if space permitted.
Mr. Scindia said what was not achieved in the past 65 years in the field of civil aviation had been achieved in the past nine years with the creation of 148 airports, waterdromes, and heliports. He said the Ministry of Civil Aviation was working towards taking it beyond 200 airports within the next three to four years.
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