Mr. Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh (A.P.,) directed the Infrastructure and Investments (I and I) Department to construct new airports.

On the 20th of January, during a meeting, Mr. Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy asked the concerned department to plan and construct at least seven new airports in the state under the ‘One District – One Airport’ concept. The “One District – One Airport is a good concept,” the Chief Minister said, and asked the officials to build the new airports in identical fashion with a capacity to handle even Boeing-type aircraft. The Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) released a press note regarding the same. The Chief Minister made this point at a review meeting and said, Andhra Pradesh has 13 districts with functional airports in Visakhapatnam, Vijayawada, Tirupati, Rajamahendravaram, Kurnool and Kadapa.

The Chief Minister wanted the officials to take up the expansion of the existing airports by drawing up an action plan within a timeframe. It’s more than a year since the contract for development of a greenfield airport at Bhogapuram in Vizianagaram district was awarded to the GMR Group. However, the work is yet to start due to hitches in land acquisition.

The contract awarded by the previous Chandrababu Naidu government for the development of an airport at Dagadarthi in SPS Nellore district was terminated in July 2020 by the Jagan Mohan Reddy regime.

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