Ayodhya airport: AAI picks up pace, infra by March next year

With the construction of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya progressing in a manner so as to ready the sanctum sanctorum by December 2023 and throw it open for devotees a month later, the Airports Authority of India (AAI) has picked up the pace to develop the required infrastructure at the under-construction international airport in the town by March next year.

The Maryada Purshottam Shri Ram International Airport, located 8 kilometres from the Ram temple, is coming up on one side of the Gorakhpur-Lucknow national highway. In April this year, the state civil aviation department had signed a lease agreement with the AAI for transfer of 318 acres of land for the airport.