{"id":463627,"date":"2022-01-24T11:22:17","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T05:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=463627"},"modified":"2022-01-24T12:31:58","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T07:01:58","slug":"hunt-for-land-to-set-up-calcuttas-second-airport-in-bhangar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/hunt-for-land-to-set-up-calcuttas-second-airport-in-bhangar\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunt for land to set up Calcutta\u2019s second airport in Bhangar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mamata Banerjee government has identified Bhangar 2 block in South 24-Parganas as the location to set up the second airport of Calcutta after the Centre rejected the state\u2019s proposal to declare Andal airport as the city\u2019s second aerodrome.<\/p>\n<p>Sources at Nabanna said the Union government had rejected Bengal\u2019s proposal to declare the Andal Airport as Calcutta\u2019s second aerodrome, saying it is located around 190km from the city. \u201cThe Centre said it would not be convenient for passengers to catch another flight at Andal after landing at the existing airport at Dum Dum,\u201d said a source .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mamata Banerjee government has identified Bhangar 2 block in South 24-Parganas as the location to set up the second airport of Calcutta after the Centre rejected the state\u2019s proposal to declare Andal airport as the city\u2019s second aerodrome. Sources at Nabanna said the Union government had rejected Bengal\u2019s proposal to declare the Andal Airport as Calcutta\u2019s second aerodrome, saying it is located around 190km from the city. \u201cThe Centre said it would not be convenient for passengers to catch another flight at Andal after landing at the existing airport at Dum Dum,\u201d said a source .<\/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-463627","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\/463627","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=463627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}