Kota airport demand will be fulfilled soon: Om Birla

Kota: The dream of Kota residents to have an airport in the city will be fulfilled soon in the coming time, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla said.

He said that the airport project was stuck due to land related issue but now after the state government has allotted the land and the work will be started after some formalities.

Birla said that the land belongs to the forest department and the work of diversion has to be done. Apart from this, after completing some minor formalities, the work of green field airport will be started this year.

Birla said that efforts will be made to complete the project as soon as possible. He said that work is also being done to improve rail connectivity in Kota.

He informed that DPR is ready to make Kota’s main railway station a world class station. Airport is a long pending demand of people in Kota.

At present, old airport is there near Aerodrome circle, but large aircraft cannot land there.