{"id":499818,"date":"2022-06-21T11:19:14","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T05:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=499818"},"modified":"2022-06-21T12:30:17","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T07:00:17","slug":"land-for-new-silchar-airport-was-sought-by-aai-in-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/land-for-new-silchar-airport-was-sought-by-aai-in-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Land for new Silchar airport was sought by AAI in 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The land for the proposed new airport in Assam&#8217;s Silchar which has sparked off a political slugfest, was sought way back in 2019 by Airports Authority of India (AAI),  documents reveal. <\/p>\n<p>The Centre&#8217;s statement made earlier this month that no proposal has yet been received for a greenfield airport in Assam&#8217;s Cachar district, despite large-scale land acquisition by the state government for a second airport in the Barak valley, has sparked off a political controversy.<\/p>\n<p>However, documents reveal that the AAI had sought land for the construction of the proposed facility, and even conducted a pre-feasibility study in 2020 for the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The land for the proposed new airport in Assam&#8217;s Silchar which has sparked off a political slugfest, was sought way back in 2019 by Airports Authority of India (AAI), documents reveal. The Centre&#8217;s statement made earlier this month that no proposal has yet been received for a greenfield airport in Assam&#8217;s Cachar district, despite large-scale land acquisition by the state government for a second airport in the Barak valley, has sparked off a political controversy. However, documents reveal that the AAI had sought land for the construction of the proposed facility, and even conducted a pre-feasibility study in 2020 for [&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":[212,130,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499818","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=499818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}