Donyi Polo airport, Arunachal Pradesh, to be inaugurated by PM Modi today: All you need to know – 10 points

Arunachal Pradesh’s first greenfield airport ‘Donyi Polo Airport’ will be inaugurated at present by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Holangi in Itanagar at present. The Donyi Polo airport is positioned at Hollongi and when it turns into operational it can enhance connectivity, commerce, and tourism within the hilly northeastern state, officers stated. Here are 10 key points concerning the Donyi Polo airport:

1) The Donyi Polo airport has been developed by the Airports Authority of India (AAI) at an estimated price of Rs 645 crore. 

2) The terminal is constructed over an space of 4100 sq m and has a peak dealing with capability of 200 passengers per hour. 

3) The airport, which is the primary greenfield airport in Arunachal Pradesh, could have eight verify-in counters.

4) With a 2,300 m runway, the airport is appropriate for all climate day operations. It will be appropriate for touchdown and take-off of Boeing 747, officers stated.

5) Donyi Polo Airport will be the third operational airport for Arunachal Pradesh, taking the full airport depend within the North-East area to 16. From 1947 to 2014, solely 9 airports had been constructed within the North-East.

6) The airport terminal is a contemporary constructing, which promotes power effectivity, renewable power and the recycling of assets. 

7) The title of the airport displays the traditions and wealthy cultural heritage of Arunachal Pradesh and its age-previous indigenous reverence to the Sun (‘Donyi’) and the Moon (‘Polo’).

8) IndiGo Airlines will begin business flights from the airport from November 28. Besides IndiGo, Akasha and Flybig airways have additionally expressed curiosity in beginning flight providers from Donyi Polo airport, AAI General Manager Dilip Kumar Sajnani stated.

9) Flights connecting Hollongi, which is round 15 km from Itanagar, with Mumbai and Kolkata will function each day barring Wednesday. A weekly flight service connecting Hollongi with Kolkata on Wednesdays will start on December 3, the chief technique and income officer of IndiGo, Sanjay Kumar had stated just lately.

10) Airports in 5 northeastern states, specifically, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh and Nagaland have seen flights take off for the primary time in 75 years.”Aircraft movement in the North-East has also witnessed an increase of 113 per cent since 2014, from 852 per week in 2014 to 1817 per week in 2022,” learn the official assertion.

(With ANI, PTI inputs)