Begin typing your search above and press return to search.
proflie-avatar
Login
exit_to_app
The smouldering of anger in Ladakh
access_time 29 March 2024 4:20 AM GMT
Democracy that banks on the electorate
access_time 28 March 2024 5:34 AM GMT
Lessons to learn from Moscow terror attack
access_time 27 March 2024 6:10 AM GMT
Gaza
access_time 26 March 2024 4:34 AM GMT
The poison is not in words, but inside
access_time 25 March 2024 5:42 AM GMT
DEEP READ
Schools breeding hatred
access_time 14 Sep 2023 10:37 AM GMT
Ukraine
access_time 16 Aug 2023 5:46 AM GMT
Ramadan: Its essence and lessons
access_time 13 March 2024 9:24 AM GMT
When ‘Jai Sree Ram’ becomes a death call
access_time 15 Feb 2024 9:54 AM GMT
exit_to_app
Homechevron_rightKeralachevron_rightSabarimala airport in...

Sabarimala airport in high priority list of Kerala govt, says Minister

text_fields
bookmark_border
Dalit Minister
cancel
camera_alt

Kerala minister for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (SC/ST) K Radhakrishnan

The Minister of Devaswom and Temples K Radhakrishnan informed the Kerala Assembly on Friday that the government would go ahead with the proposed Sabarimala airport. Radhakrishnan was responding to a calling attention motion moved by N Jayaraj.

"The Cheruvally rubber estate has been selected as the place for the proposed airport. The feasibility study report has already been submitted to the Civil Aviation Ministry, and they have sought more details and it would be given shortly," said Radhakrishnan.

"The state-run KSIDC has been appointed as the nodal agency for all the preliminary work, including taking over the land. This airport is in the high priority list of the government, and it would be completed in a time-bound manner," he added.

Cheruvally estate is in the Kottayam district and spans across 2,263 acres. It is about 48 km from the Sabarimala temple and is owned by the Thiruvalla based Believers Church. The title of the estate has been a matter of debate between successive governments. The issue of its ownership is a long-standing legal dispute and is in the Kerala High Court, with the state government claiming that the land originally belongs to it.

CM Pinarayi Vijayan got the informal sanction from the Union Covil Aviation Minister Anand Gajapathy Raju for the airport in 2016. The airport has long been in demand to cater to Sabarimala pilgrims. During the Oommen Chandy government, between 2011 and 16, a private player had proposed to build an airport at Aranmula in Pathanamthitta. However, it later got entangled in several issues. The Pinarayi government revoked the earlier sanction given to Aranmula once he assumed office for the first term in 2016 May.

Show Full Article
TAGS:KeralaSabarimala airport
Next Story