Resume flight to Delhi: Cong MP writes to PM
Monday, 30/06/2014
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2014/20140630/ldh1.htm#7
Ludhiana : Congress Member of Parliament Ravneet Singh Bittu has written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Civil Aviation Minister Pusapati Ashok Gajapathi Raju demanding that the flight between Ludhiana and Delhi, which was discontinued in May this year, be resumed.
In his letter, Bittu said Ludhiana, the industrial capital of Punjab, had thousands of medium and small- scale industries.
In July 2009, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) had ranked Ludhiana as the easiest location to do business in the country. The PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry again endorsed the fact.
“It is ironic that a city which, as per the World Bank (WB) report titled ‘Doing Business in India 2009’, is the most adept place to carry out business transactions, does not even have a direct flight connectivity with the National Capital,” he said.
Bittu added that till recently only a single flight on Sunday, Monday and Wednesday was serving the people of Ludhiana.
The required equipment/infrastructure to run more flights has been installed/created at the airport in the past few years. Instead of adding more flights, even the existing services were discontinued.
Bittu demanded that a regular daily flight, preferably in the morning, from New Delhi to the Sahnewal Airport (Ludhiana) be resumed in the public interest.
