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RN Ravi with Hardeep Singh Puri in New Delhi on Tuesday. [/caption]
Dimapur, Aug. 27 (EMN): Flight services between Dimapur-Guwahati, Dimapur-Imphal and Dimapur-Dibrugarh under the government of India’s UDAN scheme will start operating by October this year.
A Raj Bhavan statement informed that this was an assurance given by the Union Minister for Civil Aviation Hardeep Singh Puri to Governor RN Ravi when they met in New Delhi on Tuesday.
Ravi had called on the union minister to raise the issue of air connectivity of Nagaland with the rest of the country, it informed.
“Governor Ravi also requested the minister to help early operationalisation of Dimapur-Guwahati, Dimapur-Imphal and Dimapur-Dibrugarh air services under UDAN scheme of the government of India. The minister gave necessary instructions to the officials concerned of the ministry and airlines, and assured the governor that the flight services on these sectors will begin by October this year,” read the statement.