Flight operations resume in Puducherry
The Hindu
T.N. government should consider providing land to expand airport: Lt. Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan
After a gap of about two years, flight services resumed from the Union Territory on Sunday with the launch of services between Puducherry and Hyderabad.
Chief Minister N. Rangasamy, Minister for Public Works K. Lakshminarayanan, Minister for Civil Supplies J. Sai Saravana Kumar received Lt. Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan, who arrived at the airport on the inaugural SpiceJet flight from Hyderabad.
Talking to reporters, Ms. Soundararajan said the Tamil Nadu government should concede the plea of the Puducherry government for allocation of land from their side since expanding the airport would help develop tourism in the State. She hoped that the Tamil Nadu government would soon come out with a positive reply.
“Puducherry should be linked to more capitals, and I have made a strong case in this regard during my discussions with Union Minister for Civil Aviation Jyotiraditya Scindia,” she said.
The Lt. Governor also handed over a ventilator made by IIT-Hyderabad to Mr. Rangasamy. She said the institution had donated five ventilators to Puducherry, and she had brought one of them today.
The election authorities are gearing up for the counting of votes cast in the simultaneous elections to Lok Sabha and Assembly seats in Andhra Pradesh, scheduled to be held on June 4. The Collectors and Election Officers of Visakhapatnam, Anakapalli and Alluri Sitharama Raju (ASR) districts said on May 23 (Thursday) that their teams were ready for the counting of votes.
Responding to the prolonged water scarcity, the residents of the area took to the streets in protest on Wednesday. The protest, which drew attention to their plight, stopped only after the intervention of the police. It was not until 1.30 p.m. that a 4000-litre tanker was finally delivered by BWSSB, providing relief to the water-starved residents.