Published on : Friday, March 8, 2019
“The lone flight from Jaipur has proved its worth,” tourist guide Ved Gautam said.
The extension a new Rs. 400 crore terminal building at the Kheria airport, currently renamed Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Airport, is anticipated to start soon. Previously there have been several efforts to connect Agra by air to overseas destinations but as per local tourism industry leaders, “interest-groups and the Delhi lobby of travel agents and hoteliers” someway always handled to freeze the plans.
Agra Civil Aviation Society Secretary Anil Sharma explained that Agra’s international airport project was taken control by politicians to Jewar in Bulandshahar district. Senior tourism industry leaders have been constantly argumentative in terms of lack of air connectivity, which had let down growth of tourism in Agra, the only city with three World Heritage monuments. “Smaller cities have regular flights but not India’s tourist destination number one,” regrets Anil Sharma, leading the movement for an international airport at Agra for the past three years.