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Nizamabad MP Kavitha met Union Aviation Minister P. Ashok Gajapathi Raju in Delhi and requested him to initiate steps to establish a domestic commercial airport at Jakranpalli in Nizamabad district. This has been a pending proposal for several years.
She said that the land was near Hyderabad-Nagpur National Highway at Jakranpalli, about 170 km from the state capital .
The 800 acres of land had been acquired by the previous Congress government but there was no further, said Kavitha .
She told to Minister that when several domestic airports are being set up by NDA government it was surprising that there was no initiative on part of the Airport Authority of India over the last three and a half years to develop the Nizamabad airport.
GMR has been hailed for the construction of Rajiv Gandhi International Airport located at Shamshabad, Ranga Reddy district.
She said Nizamabad, Bodhan and Kamareddy were the main business centres in the district having transactions across the country and even with a few Gulf countries. Mr Raju agreed to send a team to obtain a feasibility report.
The Telangana government also allotted 225 acres in Warangal for the restoration of the Nizam-era airport.