Shorter path to airport from Chandigarh: Take up problem with Punjab on precedence, panel to MHA : The Tribune India

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Dushyant Singh Pundir

Tribune Information Service

Chandigarh, December 17

For a shorter path to the worldwide airport from Chandigarh, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Residence Affairs has requested the Ministry of Residence Affairs (MHA) to take up the difficulty on a precedence foundation with the stakeholders.

In its report tabled within the Lok Sabha, the committee talked about that the present route from Tribune Chowk to the Chandigarh worldwide airport is inflicting pointless inconvenience to the residents of Chandigarh as they must cowl extra distance and spend extra time to succeed in the airport.

The committee advisable that the MHA might take up this matter with the Ministries of Civil Aviation and Defence on a precedence foundation to attach the outdated and new terminal via an underpass beneath the present runway to make it handy for folks travelling to the airport.

Alternatively, the committee additional advisable that the MHA might coordinate with the Authorities of Punjab for making provision of roughly 4.7-km street via Jagatpura village for the airport, which is able to cut back the space to the airport by about 10 km and can save the time of a lot of folks travelling to the airport from Chandigarh.

UT Adviser Dharam Pal had not too long ago directed the Deputy Commissioner (DC) and the UT Chief Engineer to arrange a report on various shorter routes to the worldwide airport from Chandigarh.

The Adviser requested the officers to submit the report on the choices obtainable for the shorter routes to the airport after learning the bottom scenario.

Earlier, the street distance from Tribune Chowk to the airport was 2.71 km, however folks must now cowl an additional distance of 14.5 km to succeed in the airport via Mohali.

Individuals have been demanding another route, which is able to make it simpler and shorter for residents of Chandigarh and Haryana to succeed in the airport.

The advice

The committee advisable that the MHA might take up the matter with the Ministries of Civil Aviation and Defence on a precedence foundation to attach the outdated and new terminal via an underpass beneath the present runway to make it handy for folks travelling to the airport.

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