Bengaluru 2nd airport: Three sites sent to Union Ministry of Civil Aviation
Bengaluru: In a significant move, the Karnataka government on Thursday submitted a proposal to the Union Ministry of Civil Aviation, identifying three potential sites around Bengaluru for the construction of a second international airport.
According to the proposal, as cited by Deccan Herald, two locations are located along Kanakapura Road in south Bengaluru, which is directly opposite the Kempegowda International Airport (KIA).
While one comes under the purview of Bangalore Urban district, the other reportedly falls under Ramanagara district. Sources told the news outlet that one of the locations identified near Harohalli is less than 10 km away from the last station of the upcoming green line Metro.
The authorities have identified plots of land at these locations, with the two Kanakapura Road sites offering 4,800 and 5,000 acres of land, respectively. The third location, situated on Kunigal Road in Nelamangala, spans approximately 5,200 acres.
In its communication to the Ministry, the state government has also expressed its readiness to provide at least 4,500 acres of land at any of the finalised locations, the report added.
As per the standard procedure, the Ministry will dispatch a team from the Airports Authority of India (AAI) to to study the locations before finalising the site for the second airport. A detailed financial feasibility study will be conducted, based on the team's recommendations.
Furthermore, the state government has informed the Ministry that all three sites are within a 50-km radius of Bengaluru city centre and are well-connected by major road networks, including national highways.
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Tipra Motha youth wing stages protest near Bangladesh Assistant High Commission
Agartala (PTI): Tipra Motha Party's youth wing on Friday staged a demonstration near the Bangladesh Assistant High Commission here to protest "anti-India campaign" and remarks made by a leader of the neighbouring country about the Northeast.
Security has been beefed up near the Bangladesh Assistant High Commission in the wake of the protest staged by the Youth Tripra Federation (YTF).
"We want to remind anti-India forces in Bangladesh that it was India that liberated Bangladesh from the oppression of Pakistan Army... It took only 13 days to turn East Pakistan into a sovereign country," YTF president Suraj Debbarma told reporters.
The agitators also raised slogans against the present regime in Bangladesh.
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Tipra Motha supremo Pradyot Kishore Manikya Debbarma, in an X post, said, "The only political party in Northeast to publicly protest outside the Bangladesh (Assistant) High Commission after statements were made against our Northeast is Tipra Motha and YTF. Wake up political rivals our real fight should be against the new mini Pakistan (Bangladesh), not each other."
During a rally in protest against the attack on prominent July Uprising leader Sharif Osman Hadi, who later succumbed to gunshot wounds, National Citizen Party (NCP) leader Hasnat Abdullah had threatened to split the seven sisters of the Northeast from India and provide shelter to separatist leaders of the region.
West Tripura Superintendent of Police (SP) Namit Pathak said that Tripura State Rifles (TSR) and CRPF personnel have been deployed to provide security to Bangladesh Assistant High Commission.
"Adequate security arrangements have been made to handle the situation," he said.
The protest brought back memories of last year, when hundreds of agitators had barged into the assistant high commission and the Centre had to tender an apology for the security breach.
Tension gripped Bangladesh on Friday after the death of Hadi triggered protests and violence in various parts of the country.
Hadi, a candidate in the scheduled February 12 general elections, died while undergoing treatment at a Singapore hospital after fighting for his life for six days. He was shot in the head last week by masked gunmen as he initiated his election campaign at central Dhaka's Bijoynagar area.
Protesters on Thursday took to the streets and attacked offices of newspapers and vandalised 32 Dhanmandi, the home of Bangladesh's founding father, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Protesters also hurled bricks and stones at the residence of the Indian Assistant High Commissioner in Chattogram, at 1.30 am, but failed to cause any damage.
