Edmonton| February
29, 2016
NRI Sabha International, Canada convened a urgent meeting demanding that international flights from the
Chandigarh Airport be started immediately.
B.S.Ghuman, President of the Sabha said that during the recent Jat
agitation in Haryana, the fares of flights from the city to Delhi and other
parts of the country were skyrocketing. The vehicular and rail traffic in the
city was disrupted for several days after the agitators blocked the roads on
the national highway connecting the city to New Delhi. It resulted in fares
soaring up to more than Rs 30,000 for flights from Chandigarh to Delhi alone.
The passengers traveling aboard had to spend huge amounts of money to reach the
Delhi airport. Many of them even missed their onward flights. Those people had
to spend lakhs of rupees after the highway was closed during the recent
agitation. “It would have provided relief to the passengers if the
international flights were available at Chandigarh Airport.”
He urged the Centre Government as well as Govt. of Punjab and Haryana
that, now, it is the high time to ponder upon that international flight be
started immediately from the Chandigarh Airport. Flight operations from the new
terminal had begun on October 19 last year, after it was inaugurated by Prime
Minister Narendra Modi in
September 2015. Even though the airport has the international tag, no
international flight has taken off from the airport so far. “It is surprising
that the Prime Minister inaugurated the airport, but the city has yet to see
international flights operating from here”, Singh said.
We would move to Punjab and Haryana High Court to file a writ petition
to ask concerned authorities to look into this matter, Singh added.
