The central government has approved the flight operations from Dehradun to three major cities of the country – Uttar Pradesh’s Ayodhya, Varanasi and Punjab’s Amritsar, Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami said today.
Chief Minister Dhami expressed gratitude to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia for the approval of all three services. The chief minister further said that all three services will be launched on March 6, Wednesday. On the inauguration day, a plane will take off from Dehradun for Ayodhya at 9:40 am and reach Ayodhya at 11:30 am, according to the chief minister’s office. “The passenger plane will take off from Dehradun for Pantnagar at 9:50 am and reach Pantnagar at 10:35 am. Similarly, a flight will take off from Pantnagar to Varanasi at 11:15 am and land in Varanasi at 1 pm. The flight from Varanasi will take off for Pantnagar at 1.40 pm and reach Pantnagar at 3:25 pm. The flight will take off from Pantnagar at 3:50 pm and reach Dehradun at 4:35 pm,” the CMO said.
Dhami had been trying for a long time to start air services for all three places, according to the CM’s office. “Before the Pran Pratishtah ceremony of Ram Lalla in Ayodhya, the CM had personally requested and written a letter to Union Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia,” it said.
