Manali: Kullu-Manali Airport in Bhuntar, one of the most challenging airports in the world, faces many technical problems.
To meet the safety norms of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation DGCA), it must have a 40-meter room on both sides of the middle line runway but has fewer on the right side.
Also, it has been damaged due to flooding in the beas, which flows next to the airport.
The airport inspection committee has now written to the head of the Himachal Pradesh head to regulate the land to make the airport safe and safe.
Member of the Kulli-Manali Airport Advisory Committee Budhi Parkash said he filed a letter to the Minister of Chief on Saturday, to accelerate the process of land acquisition so that Bhuntar airport could meet the minimum safety standards.
“The airport is the backbone of tourism and prosperity of the place.
The airport has several small technical problems related to expansion and widening For immediate action, “he said.
The airport authority has tried to obtain land for airport expansion but procedural problems related to land acquisition have blocked.
An official said that land next to the airport belonging to the Ministry of Forestry and can be acquired only after completing the Act Under Forest (Conservation) procedure, 1980.
Now, the State Tourism Department has been involved in this process.
The Ministry of Tourism officials recently met with the Director of Kullu Airport to discuss the land transfer process and request airport authorities to complete the process in a way that they have to pay only the cost of affrory compensation and consultant fees.
However, they were told by the Director that the Indian Airport Authority did not bear the costs of land acquisition but would be spent on the development of land after being transferred in his name (AAA).
The airport only has 1.087m long runway and is unable to handle large or medium aircraft.
The plane landed and took off with a penalty containing to avoid collisions with Larji Bukit and had to land on the first attempt, failed that they could collide with Bijli Mahadev Temple and the nearest hills.
Only one plane land at the airport a day and the cost is very high, which makes it beyond the reach of ordinary people and only high tourists or people in emergency use it.