The Dehradun district magistrate has directed the Doiwala municipality to set up a dumping zone at a distance of 15 kilometres from the periphery of Dehradun airport. He also told the forest department to deploy a rescue team near the airport which would help in the rescue of wild animals entering the airport premises from time to time. On Wednesday, the DM Ashish Kumar Srivastava conducted a virtual meeting with the airport environment management committee to discuss the measures required to make the airfield of the airport more secure. The officials from airport authority expressed the need to take measures in order to make the airfield zone of the airport free from interferences caused due to birds and animals during the takeoff and landing of the aircrafts.
