Keep in view tourism, industry, city development while developing airports : CM Uddhav Thackeray
Mumbai, Feb 25, 2020: Airport development should be viewed with a long term view of developing tourism, industry and cities instead of just limited to basic infrastructure facilities, said Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray. He directed the officers to develop Shirdi airport terminus building expansion on a theme-based system keeping in view the spiritual background of the place.
He was speaking while chairing the Board of Directors meeting of Maharashtra Airports Development Company (MADC) at Legislative Assembly Building today. Chief Minister Thackeray said that with the airport development religious tourism has received a boost in Shirdi. In foreign countries airports at religious places are developed on a theme-based system keeping in view the spiritual distinctions of those places. We can adopt similar pattern for airport development at Nanded, Shirdi etc. in our state. To complete the expansion of Shirdi Airport Terminus Building similar pattern can be employed and work should be done in coordination with MADC. He also directed to activate the night landing facilities at Shirdi airport from April.
While developing airports efforts should be made to provide better connectivity with adjoining cities, and urban development, CIDCO, MADC, MTDC, MIDC should work with better coordination for developing industries, urban planning for city development, and tourism development in the nearby areas. Work should be accelerated to complete the Chipi airport in Sindhudurg district and surrounding area should be developed in a planned way including urban development.
The meeting was attended by Tourism Minister Aditya Thackeray, Chief Secretary Ajoy Mehta, Additional Principal Secretary of Finance Department Manoj Sounik, CXM’s Principal Secretary Aashish Kumar Singh, Principal Secretary of GAD Valsa Nair-Singh, Principal Secretary of Urban Development I S Chahal, Principal Secretary of Industry Department Venugopal Reddy, CIDCO MD Lokesh Chandra, Nagpur Divisional Commissioner Dr Sanjiv Kumar, Nagpur Improvement Trust (NIT) Chairperson Smt Sheetal Teli-Ugale, MADC MD Anil Patil and others.
