Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 15: Shri Ram Sena (SRS) today said that despite the Government claims of promoting Jammu as a preferred tourist destination, successive regimes have failed to even provide air connectivity to the Winter Capital. Decades on, the only airport here awaits long-pending expansion and the Government has decided to make available the night landing facility at the Srinagar Airport while didn’t utter a word for such a facility for the airport in Jammu.
On Monday, Chief Minister, Mehbooba Mufti in a high-level meeting said that the Srinagar airport would soon be having night landing facility for which all preparations are being made by the concerned agencies.
SRS Sate president Rajiv Mahajan said that Jammu Airpot’s short and rough runway pose serious threat to lives of passengers.
He also said that extremely hazardous plight of Jammu Airport which is short and rough runway is not only a nightmarish for pilots but poses serious threat to lives and safety of passengers and the Government has not only neglected long pending extension of the existing runway at the Jammu Airport from 6700 feet to 8000 feet as but also displayed criminal negligence in ensuring proper maintenance of the airport thus putting the very lives of passengers to jeopardy”.
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