{"id":484178,"date":"2022-04-13T10:38:03","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T05:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=484178"},"modified":"2022-04-13T11:30:07","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T06:00:07","slug":"northeasts-first-flight-training-academy-opened-at-lilabari-airport-in-assam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/northeasts-first-flight-training-academy-opened-at-lilabari-airport-in-assam\/","title":{"rendered":"Northeast&#8217;s first flight training academy opened at Lilabari airport in Assam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first flight training academy in the Northeast was inaugurated at Lilabari airport in Assam&#8217;s Lakhimpur district on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia, Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju and Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma formally declared the Redbird Flight Training Academy open.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a historic day for the Northeast. The region is getting its first pilot training academy after 75 years of Independence,&#8221; Scindia told reporters after the inauguration. <\/p>\n<p>The Union minister said that another such academy will be set up at Tezu in Arunachal Pradesh.<\/p>\n<p>Sarma, in a series of tweets, said that his government has handed over 84 acres of land for the development of a basic airstrip and the construction of an isolation bay at the academy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first flight training academy in the Northeast was inaugurated at Lilabari airport in Assam&#8217;s Lakhimpur district on Tuesday. Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia, Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju and Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma formally declared the Redbird Flight Training Academy open. &#8220;This is a historic day for the Northeast. The region is getting its first pilot training academy after 75 years of Independence,&#8221; Scindia told reporters after the inauguration. The Union minister said that another such academy will be set up at Tezu in Arunachal Pradesh. Sarma, in a series of tweets, said that his government has [&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":[176,146,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484178","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=484178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}