{"id":298202,"date":"2019-10-28T12:06:49","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T06:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=298202"},"modified":"2019-10-28T12:15:51","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T06:45:51","slug":"bengal-hope-soars-on-assam-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/bengal-hope-soars-on-assam-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengal hope soars on Assam airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Assam government has announced that Rupsi airport in Kokrajhar district, which was abandoned by the British in 1945, is set to become operational again from December, bringing cheer in neighbouring Alipurduar and Cooch Behar districts of Bengal. <\/p>\n<p>The airport has been readied under the RCS-UDAN (regional connectivity scheme) of the Centre, said administrative officials in Assam. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is ready. Rupsi airport is likely to be functional from December. Initially, the plan is to start flights to Guwahati and Calcutta,\u201d said P. Majumdar, the collector of Kokrajhar, over phone. <\/p>\n<p>Sources in the Airports Authority of India said that to begin with, the Hyderabad-headquartered private airline TruJet would run flights from Rupsi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Assam government has announced that Rupsi airport in Kokrajhar district, which was abandoned by the British in 1945, is set to become operational again from December, bringing cheer in neighbouring Alipurduar and Cooch Behar districts of Bengal. The airport has been readied under the RCS-UDAN (regional connectivity scheme) of the Centre, said administrative officials in Assam. \u201cIt is ready. Rupsi airport is likely to be functional from December. Initially, the plan is to start flights to Guwahati and Calcutta,\u201d said P. Majumdar, the collector of Kokrajhar, over phone. Sources in the Airports Authority of India said that to begin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[216,130,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}