Make old Chandigarh airport terminal operational: Manish Tewari

Chandigarh, July 6

Newly elected MP Manish Tewari has demanded that the old Chandigarh airport terminal be made functional.

On social media site ‘X’, Tewari stated that last evening he went to Behlana village for a thanksgiving function, where one of the residents brought up the issue of original terminal of the Chandigarh airport that has unfortunately gone to seed, a gross wastage of public resources.

Tewari said since he had taken up the issue earlier also, the old Chandigarh airport was extensively renovated between 2010 and 2014. On September 11, 2015, the Prime Minister inaugurated the new Chandigarh airport and since then the ‘extensively renovated’ old Chandigarh airport building is lying virtually abandoned.

In response to a question he raised in Parliament in mid-2019, the government claimed that no money was spent on renovating the old Chandigarh airport building, which is simply not correct, he said, and urged the new Civil Aviation Minister to take cognisance of this gross wastage of public money and make the old Chandigarh airport terminal operational.

Tewari said he would be writing to the new Civil Aviation Minster. “The government says no money was spent on renovating the old Chandigarh airport. As an MP from Ludhiana between 2009 and 2014 and Minister of Information and Broadcasting, I saw renovation taking place before my eyes. I even wrote to minister Hardeep Singh Puri that what he had told the Parliament was untrue,” he said.

Meanwhile, Manish Tewari visited ward no. 34 to listen to CHB residents on the lingering issue of need-based changes.

The representatives of the CHB Residents’ Welfare Federation, AC Dhawan, VK Nirmal, and Tarsem Sharma, in a detailed discussion told the MP how only one-time Delhi solution was the only remedy to give permanent relief to the people.

Tewari fully understood every dimension of this complicated issue and assured the representatives of immediate action by writing to the Administrator on the issue and by asking the board official to immediately stop all ongoing action against the CHB residents regarding ‘violations’.