Union Minister Ram Mohan Naidu meets Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, discusses Kota Greenfield Airport
Jul 03, 2024
New Delhi [India], July 3 : Union Civil Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu met Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla and held a review meeting over Kota Greenfield Airport in the national capital on Wednesday.
The Civil Aviation Minister said that the Ministry is serious about the airport, and officials have been directed to prepare a DPR at the earliest, NOC and other formalities to be completed soon.
The goal is to make the airport operational within two years of the beginning of the construction.
Earlier today, Rajya Sabha member from Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam P Wilson met Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu in New Delhi and sought the latter's intervention to expedite the pending site clearance for the new greenfield airport proposed for Chennai in Parandur in Kancheepuram district.
In a letter to the central minister, the parliamentarian from Tamil Nadu said that the state government under MK Stalin is committed to establishing a new greenfield airport in Parandur on a land mass of 4,970 acres.
At 36, three-time Lok Sabha MP from Andhra Pradesh's Srikakulam is the youngest minister in the Modi 3.0 cabinet.
In the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, Naidu defeated YSRCP's Tilak Perada by a margin of 3,27,901 votes.
Naidu entered politics in 2012 following the tragic demise of his father in an accident. He won the Srikakulam Lok Sabha seat in 2014. He retained the seat in the 2019 elections too.
