{"id":301223,"date":"2019-11-16T12:16:15","date_gmt":"2019-11-16T06:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=301223"},"modified":"2019-11-16T12:16:15","modified_gmt":"2019-11-16T06:46:15","slug":"kerala-to-get-airstrips-in-remote-tourist-locales-like-wayanad-idukky-and-kasargod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/kerala-to-get-airstrips-in-remote-tourist-locales-like-wayanad-idukky-and-kasargod\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerala to get airstrips in remote tourist locales like Wayanad, Idukky and Kasargod"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wayanad, hogging limelight as Rahul Gandhi\u2019s parliamentary constituency, is to notch basic air-connectivity and a tunnel road. Besides the greenfield Sabari airport \u2014 the state\u2019s fifth airport \u2014 the Kerala government is going ahead with airstrips in remote tourist locales like Wayanad, Idukky and Kasargod. It was chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan who revealed these projects during his weekly televised debate programme. Connectivity would be the thrust of LDF government\u2019s infrastructure development agenda, he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe intend to build air-strips in Wayanad, Idukky and Kasargod. The realisation of Sabari airport would help not just the pilgrims to Ayyappa shrine, but also those travelling to Thiruvalla and Chenganur,\u201d he said. Louis Berger Consulting is the consultant for the Sabari airport project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wayanad, hogging limelight as Rahul Gandhi\u2019s parliamentary constituency, is to notch basic air-connectivity and a tunnel road. Besides the greenfield Sabari airport \u2014 the state\u2019s fifth airport \u2014 the Kerala government is going ahead with airstrips in remote tourist locales like Wayanad, Idukky and Kasargod. It was chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan who revealed these projects during his weekly televised debate programme. Connectivity would be the thrust of LDF government\u2019s infrastructure development agenda, he added. \u201cWe intend to build air-strips in Wayanad, Idukky and Kasargod. The realisation of Sabari airport would help not just the pilgrims to Ayyappa shrine, but also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[196,130,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301223","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}