The Airport Authority of India (AAI) has expressed its interest on upgrading the Indira Gandhi National Civil Aviation Institute in Rae Bareli to the status of a deemed university.
Chairman, AAI, VP Agarwal said that the institute promises to be elevated and made operational like a university. Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi last year had announced the much-awaited venue of the civil aviation university, which till date happens to be a mystery.
Chairman, AAI, VP Agarwal said that the institute promises to be elevated and made operational like a university. Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi last year had announced the much-awaited venue of the civil aviation university, which till date happens to be a mystery.
Even though there have been murmurs of a civil aviation university coming at Fursatganj with an aim to give better training facilities to the pilots. But now, it appears that it could be the institute in Sonia Gandhi's constituency instead that could be upgraded to the status of a university.
Agarwal also said that the authority would also help further upgrade the airport in Safai, the native village of Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav.
"The airport is the state owned enterprise. We will help it upgrade to the status if the state government wishes,'' the AAI chairman said.
This is probably for the first time post UP assembly elections that a central authority has shown its interest in upgrading the state owned facility, thanks to the prevailing bon-homie between the Samajwadi Party and the Congress.
Agarwal though refused to comment on the cancellation of the international airport project in Jewar, he said that the authority will lend its full support to the state government which has proposed to set up an airport in Agra.
"It (Jewar airport) was the decision of the state government. We cannot say anything on that. But as far as the one proposed in Agra is concerned the authority will help the government in whatever ways it can,'' he said.
Agarwal also said that the authority would also help further upgrade the airport in Safai, the native village of Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav.
"The airport is the state owned enterprise. We will help it upgrade to the status if the state government wishes,'' the AAI chairman said.
This is probably for the first time post UP assembly elections that a central authority has shown its interest in upgrading the state owned facility, thanks to the prevailing bon-homie between the Samajwadi Party and the Congress.
Agarwal though refused to comment on the cancellation of the international airport project in Jewar, he said that the authority will lend its full support to the state government which has proposed to set up an airport in Agra.
"It (Jewar airport) was the decision of the state government. We cannot say anything on that. But as far as the one proposed in Agra is concerned the authority will help the government in whatever ways it can,'' he said.
