Karnataka's Bidar city now in aviation map of India
Bengaluru, Feb 7: Bidar on Friday was put on the aviation map of India after the first direct flight from the city to Bengaluru under the UDAN scheme was launched by Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa and civil aviation secretary Pradeep Singh Kharola.
TruJet will operate the daily flight to and from Bidar and Bengaluru.
It will leave Bengaluru at 11.40 AM and reach Bidar at 1.05 PM.
The return flight will leave Bidar at 1.25 PM and reach Bengaluru at 3.15 PM, an official release said.
It said the airport has been remodeled at a cost of Rs 11 crore under the union government's Regional Connectivity Scheme-Ude Desh Ka Aam Nagrik (RCS-UDAN)
The cost was shared jointly by the state and central government, it said.
Kharola said the newly built airport inks the "commitment and perseverance" of the Ministry of Civil Aviation to establish substantial air connectivity in India.
The inauguration of Bidar airport marks the operationalisation of the eighth airport in the Karnataka region, said the press release.
Prior to Bidar, flight services from Kalaburagi to Bengaluru had been started last year.
The release said MoCA undertook the task of remodeling Bidar Air Force Station for commercial aviation purposes as people frequently had to undertake a 11 hour journey by either train or bus to Bengaluru for all administrative work.
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India rejects China's 'preposterous' attempts to rename places in Arunachal Pradesh
New Delhi (PTI): India on Wednesday outrightly rejected China's attempts to rename some places in Arunachal Pradesh, saying such "preposterous" attempts will not alter the "undeniable" reality that the state "was, is, and will" always remain an integral part of India.
New Delhi's reaction came in response to Beijing announcing Chinese names for some places in Arunachal Pradesh, which the neighbouring country claims as the southern part of Tibet.
"We have noticed that China has persisted with its vain and preposterous attempts to name places in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh," External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said.
"Consistent with our principled position, we reject such attempts categorically," he said.
Jaiswal was responding to a media query on the issue.
"Creative naming will not alter the undeniable reality that Arunachal Pradesh was, is, and will always remain an integral and inalienable part of India," he said.
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