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This story is from August 24, 2020

Warangal airport: KTR seeks early survey by Airports Authority of India, pitches for the project to be included under 'Udaan'

Municipal administration minister KT Rama Rao has pitched for the revival of the Mamunur airport in Warangal and urged Union civil aviation minister Hardeep Singh Puri to include it in the ‘Udaan scheme’ of the central government to improve regional connectivity.
Warangal airport: KTR seeks early survey by Airports Authority of India, pitches for the project to be included under 'Udaan'
KT Rama Rao met Hardeep Singh Puri in New Delhi on Monday.
HYDERABAD: Municipal administration minister KT Rama Rao has pitched for the revival of the Mamunur airport in Warangal and urged Union civil aviation minister Hardeep Singh Puri to include it in the ‘Udaan scheme’ of the central government to improve regional connectivity.
KT Rama Rao met Hardeep Singh Puri in New Delhi on Monday and pointed out that Warangal being the second largest city in Telangana with 11 lakh population, air connectivity was necessary.
He said in Mamunur, there already was an existing airstrip and its length will have to be increased. The minister said in March this year during a meeting with Hardeep Singh Puri the matter was discussed.
"A team of the Airports Authority of India (AAI) had to come for a survey but it did not owing to the Covid situation. But work now has to be taken up on a priority basis,” he said. The minister also additional land would also be acquired for the airport.
“There are proposals for airports at six different locations in the state. Since there is an existing runway in Mamunur, work here can be taken up on a priority basis and speeded up. Work on the other airports will also have to follow subsequently,” he said.
A team of the AAI is expected in a week to carry out a survey at the Mamunur air strip.
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Sushil Rao is Editor-Special Reports, at The Times of India, Hyderabad. He began his journalism career at the age of 20 in 1988. He is a gold medalist in journalism from the Department of Communication and Journalism, Arts College, Osmania University, Hyderabad from where he did his post-graduation from. He has been with The Times of India’s Hyderabad edition since its launch in 2000. He has also done an introductory course in film studies from the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, and also from the Central University of Kerala equipping himself with the knowledge of filmmaking for film criticism. He has authored four books. In his career spanning 34 years, he has worked for five newspapers and has also done television reporting. He was also a web journalist during internet’s infancy in the mid 1990s in India. He covers defence, politics, diaspora, innovation, administration, the film industry, Hyderabad city and Telangana state, and human interest stories. He is also a podcaster, blogger, does video reporting and makes documentaries.

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