{"id":437962,"date":"2021-09-24T11:08:29","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T05:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=437962"},"modified":"2021-09-24T11:48:58","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T06:18:58","slug":"before-vijay-rupani-govt-stepped-down-gujarat-sought-centres-help-to-revive-seaplane-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/before-vijay-rupani-govt-stepped-down-gujarat-sought-centres-help-to-revive-seaplane-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Before Vijay Rupani govt stepped down, Gujarat sought Centre\u2019s help to revive seaplane project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just days before it was ousted, the Vijay Rupani government had begun looking for options to resurrect the much-hyped seaplane service connecting Sabarmati Riverfront in Ahmedabad to Statue of Unity in Kevadia in Narmada district that has been inoperative since April this year.<\/p>\n<p>In a confidential letter, accessed by The Indian Express, then Gujarat Minister for Civil Aviation, Bhupendrasinh Chudasama, wrote a letter to Union Minister for Civil Aviation Jyotiraditya Scindia on September 1, seeking his \u201cintervention in a sensitive matter\u201d, proposing that the Union government could \u201cprovide the capital cost of Rs 120 crore to Gujarat State Aviation Infrastructure Company Limited (GUJSAIL) for acquiring two seaplanes as a \u201cpilot project\u201d for operation from Sabarmati Riverfront (SRF) to Statue of Unity (SoU).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just days before it was ousted, the Vijay Rupani government had begun looking for options to resurrect the much-hyped seaplane service connecting Sabarmati Riverfront in Ahmedabad to Statue of Unity in Kevadia in Narmada district that has been inoperative since April this year. In a confidential letter, accessed by The Indian Express, then Gujarat Minister for Civil Aviation, Bhupendrasinh Chudasama, wrote a letter to Union Minister for Civil Aviation Jyotiraditya Scindia on September 1, seeking his \u201cintervention in a sensitive matter\u201d, proposing that the Union government could \u201cprovide the capital cost of Rs 120 crore to Gujarat State Aviation Infrastructure [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-437962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437962","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=437962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}